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Noun

nanite (plural nanites)

• (science fiction) Synonym of nanorobot.
  • ✤ I had the nanites install the brackets, then climbed up there with the panels, placed them on the brackets, and had the nanites secure them.¹
  • ✤ Disperse into a cloud of nanites.²
  • ✤ “Anyway,” their guide continued, “he didn’t know the first thing about tech. Pushed the team hard. We couldn’t get a chemical solution that worked right, but nanites showed real promise.”
    “You’re joking.” Quinn didn’t even try to keep the horror from her voice.
    “Memory-altering nanite clouds?” Tonya growled. “What did they call this, Project Grey Goo? That’s wildly irresponsible.”³
  • ✤ “A nanite cluster has infested the resort, consuming metal to self-replicate. Starfleet has ordered us to humanely capture and study the microscopic robots.”⁴

Etymology

From nano- +‎ -ite.

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Footnotes

1. 2017, Stephanie C. Fox, New World Order Underwater, page 76: ↩

2. 2021 August 11, Thomas Happ, Axiom Verge 2, Nintendo Switch, description for Tilhar: ↩

3. 2023 June 25, HarryBlank, “Transposthumousism”, in SCP Foundation ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 18 December 2024: ↩

4. 2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (0:48 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks ‎${}^{[2]}$, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis): ↩