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Femto is a prefix (see all prefixes) to a unit and means that it is 10-15 times this unit, or, one quindecillionth (European) or one quadrillionth (American). Examples are one femtosecond or one femtometre.

Adopted in 1964, it comes from the Danish femten, meaning fifteen.






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