MEANING
A pore or opening with dimensions on the nanometer scale.
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- a membrane nanopore
- nanopore sensing
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The molecule passed through the nanopore as the current changed.
They compared the membrane nanopores with the larger openings in the support.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular nanopore; plural nanopores. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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