Convert Nanometers to Centimeters
1 nanometer is 1.00e-7 cm. One nanometer is exactly 1e-7 centimeters.
One nanometer is 1.0000 × 10^-7 centimeters. To convert nanometers to centimeters, multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-7; to go the other way, divide by 1.0000 × 10^-7 or multiply by 10000000. The relation is exact but the figure is not: it is a rounding of a number that does not terminate, and it follows from NIST. A billionth of a meter.
Factor checked against the defining standard · How we check
- Nanometers × 1.0000 × 10^-7
1 * 0.00000010 cm
1 nanometer in every length unit
| Unit | Value | Exact factor |
|---|---|---|
| inches | 0.00000003937007874 in | × 0.0000000393700787402 |
| feet | 0.000000003280839895 ft | × 0.00000000328083989501 |
| yards | 0.000000001093613298 yd | × 0.00000000109361329834 |
| miles | 0 mi | × 0.000000000000621371192237 |
| millimeters | 0.000001 mm | × 0.000001 |
| decimetres | 0.00000001 dm | × 0.00000001 |
| centimeters | 0.0000001 cm | × 0.0000001 |
| meters | 0.000000001 m | × 0.000000001 |
| kilometers | 0.000000000001 km | × 0.000000000001 |
| nautical miles | 0 nmi | × 0.000000000000539956803456 |
| micrometers | 0.001 µm | × 0.001 |
| nanometers (as entered) | 1 nm | — |
| thou | 0.00003937007874 thou | × 0.0000393700787402 |
Factors are entered by hand from NIST rather than derived from a units library, so the ones that terminate are exact rather than rounded.
The same converter answers this pair however it is written: nanometres to centimetres is the British spelling of the same units — the metre and the litre are spelled that way outside the United States and the quantity does not change.
How do you convert nanometers to centimeters? The converter and the working
- 1.Take the measurement in nanometers.
- 2.Multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-7 — that is how many centimeters fit in one nanometer.
- 3.To go back the other way, divide by 1.0000 × 10^-7, or multiply by 10000000.
Worked example: 25 nanometers to centimeters
- Formula
- nm × 1.0000 × 10^-7 = cm
- Arithmetic
- 25 × 1.0000 × 10^-7 = 0.0000025 cm
- Answer
- 25 nm = 0.0000025 cm
The factor is rounded for display; the figure above is computed from the full value.
Nanometers to centimeters conversion table
| Nanometers | Centimeters |
|---|---|
| 1 nm | 1.00e-7 cm |
| 2 nm | 2.00e-7 cm |
| 3 nm | 3.00e-7 cm |
| 4 nm | 4.00e-7 cm |
| 5 nm | 5.00e-7 cm |
| 6 nm | 6.00e-7 cm |
| 7 nm | 7.00e-7 cm |
| 8 nm | 8.00e-7 cm |
| 9 nm | 9.00e-7 cm |
| 10 nm | 0.000001 cm |
| 12 nm | 0.0000012 cm |
| 15 nm | 0.0000015 cm |
| 20 nm | 0.000002 cm |
| 25 nm | 0.0000025 cm |
| 50 nm | 0.000005 cm |
| 100 nm | 0.00001 cm |
| 200 nm | 0.00002 cm |
| 300 nm | 0.00003 cm |
| 500 nm | 0.00005 cm |
| 1000 nm | 0.0001 cm |
| 2000 nm | 0.0002 cm |
| 5000 nm | 0.0005 cm |
| 10000 nm | 0.001 cm |
What is a nanometer?
A billionth of a meter. Visible light runs from about 380 to 750 nm, and a semiconductor process node is named after one even though it stopped describing a physical dimension years ago.
What is a centimeter?
One hundredth of a meter, and the unit most of the world states height in.
How many centimeters are in a nanometer?
One nanometer is 1.0000 × 10^-7 centimeters. Going the other way, one centimeter is 10000000 nanometers. Both figures come from the same defined relation rather than from a measurement, which is why they are the same today as they were in 1959.
Every length unit here
The whole group — 13 units with their symbols and the size of each one in meters — is on the conversion index, along with every pair it makes. The table above already gives each of them relative to a nanometer.
Source: NIST — international yard and pound agreement (inch = 25.4 mm exactly)
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Questions people actually ask
- How many centimeters are in a nanometer?
- 1.0000 × 10^-7. One hundredth of a meter, and the unit most of the world states height in.
- How do I convert centimeters back to nanometers?
- Divide by 1.0000 × 10^-7, or multiply by 10000000 — they are the same operation.
Other length conversions
Centimeters to nanometers — the same conversion the other way.