Picometre

Picometre

A picometre (American spelling: picometer, symbol pm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one trillionth (1/1,000,000,000,000) of a metre, which is the current SI base unit of length. It can be written in scientific notation as 1×10−12 m (engineering notation) or nowrap|1 E-12 m (exponential notation) — both meaning nowrap|1 m / 1,000,000,000,000.

It equals a millionth of a micrometre (formerly called a micron), and was formerly called micromicron, stigma, or bicron. [cite book | title = Dictionary of Distances | author = Elena Deza and Michel Marie Deza | publisher = Elsevier | year = 2006 | isbn = 0444520872 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=I-PQH8gcOjUC&pg=PA347&dq=stigma+bicron&lr=&ei=tYjISJz5HaaktAPJkqjkBQ&sig=ACfU3U3U2S3gikmIt4r9RO8dM3GYllujSA ] The symbol µµ was once used for it. [How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement; Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictB.html]

It equals a hundredth of an Ångström, an internationally recognized non-SI unit of length.

ee also

*Metric system
*Orders of magnitude (length)
*Conversion of units, for comparison with other units of length.

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