nanomachine n.
a nanotechnological machine
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1986 Engines of Creation i. 5
The engineers of the new technology will build both nanocircuits and nanomachines.
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1990 Queen of Angels (1991) .iv. 20
Greg Bear
The resulting flow of electricity through the superconducting material of the wings…was used by AXIS to dismantle the antimatter drive, reduce it to a fine powder with the aid of nanomachine destructors.
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1993 Assemblers of Infinity 37 39,
Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason
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I think you'll find these are the most promising nanomachines yet.
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1993 Harvest of Stars (1994) 424
Poul Anderson
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At the fringes, robots trundled with their loads from a dome wherein humus was being synthesized, to work it into the rock that nanomachines had reduced to mineral grains.
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1994 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan. 83/1
I’ve heard you work on molecular modifiers. Nanomachines.
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1994 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan. 94/1
Tailor a nanomachine that can repair Dee-dee’s cells.
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1994 Necroville (1995) 254
Ian McDonald
It’s the original nanomachine, microprocessors the size of molecules.
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1994 Ring (1996) . 388,
Stephen Baxter
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I think they downloaded equipment into there: nanomachines, ‘bots of some kind—maybe even some analogue of humans.
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1996 The Embarkation for Cythera in Interzone (#106) Apr. 39/1
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Richard Calder
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When programs became streams of nanomachines, the nanomachines streams of quasi-particles and photons.
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1996 Doing Things Differently in Interzone (#111) Sept. 18/1
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Molly Brown
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You will be expected to install and supervise various terraforming nanomachines.
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2013 2121 177
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Susan Greenfield
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It must have been the sophisticated automation itself—it could hardly be the infantile Others—that had developed nano-machines that could control themselves, independent of the human macro-world.
Research requirements
antedating 1986
Earliest cite
K. E. Drexler 'Engines of Creation'
Research History
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2013 cite from Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield.Added to the OED in June 2003, with an earliest cite from 1986.
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