What is the prefix for 10-6?

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1. What is the prefix for 10-6?
2. What does the symbol 10-6 mean?
3. What is the unit of Micro?
4. What goes after Nano?
5. Is Mega 10 6?
6. What does Giga mean in English?
7. What is a symbol of quantity?
8. Is DM Deci or Deca?
9. What is smaller than a nano?
10. Is Pico a billionth?
11. Does nano mean small?
12. What does giga mean in English?
13. Does G mean billion?
14. Does giga mean giant?
15. What is the example of quantity?
16. How do you represent quantity?
17. Whats bigger Hecto or Deca?
18. Is deci bigger than Deca?
19. Is Nano smaller than micro?
20. Why does pico have a gun?

What is the prefix for 10-6?

micro Table 5. SI prefixes

Factor	Name	Symbol
10-6	micro	µ
10-9	nano	n
10-12	pico	p
10-15	femto	f

What does the symbol 10-6 mean?

micro SI Prefixes and Symbols Used to Denote Powers of 10

Prefix	Multiple	Symbol
micro	10-6	mu
nano	10-9	n
pico	10-12	p
femto	10-15	f

What is the unit of Micro?

Micro (Greek letter μ (U+03BC) or the legacy symbol µ (U+00B5)) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 10−6 (one millionth). Confirmed in 1960, the prefix comes from the Greek μικρός (mikrós), meaning "small".

What goes after Nano?

List of SI prefixes

Prefix	Base 10
Name	Symbol
micro	μ	10−6
nano	n	10−9
pico	p	10−12

Is Mega 10 6?

Mega is a unit prefix in metric systems of units denoting a factor of one million (1000). It has the unit symbol M. It was confirmed for use in the International System of Units (SI) in 1960.

What does Giga mean in English?

giant Giga is derived from the Greek word γίγας (gígas), meaning "giant." The Oxford English Dictionary reports the earliest written use of giga in this sense to be in the Reports of the IUPAC 14th Conference in 1947: "The following prefixes to abbreviations for the names of units should be used: G giga 109×." ...

What is a symbol of quantity?

Densities, flows, gradients, and moments

Quantity	Typical symbols	Dimension
Specific quantity	qm	[q]M−1
Molar quantity	qn	[q]N−1
Quantity gradient (if q is a scalar field).		[q]L−1
Spectral quantity (for EM waves)	qv, qν, qλ	[q]L−1 (qλ) [q]T (qν)

Is DM Deci or Deca?

Prefixes

Purpose	Name	Name
larger quantities or whole units	hecto Example: hectare	Hundred
deka Example: dekameter	Ten
		One
smaller quantities or sub units	deci Example: decimeter	Tenth

What is smaller than a nano?

A kilogram being a thousand grams, but a nanogram isn't a billionth of a gram, it's just a millionth, it's a billionth of a kilogram. Anyway, smaller than nano? ... pico (million-millionth), femto (million-billionth), atto (billion-billionth), zepto (billion-trillionth), yocto (trillion-trillionth).

Is Pico a billionth?

here's the full list of prefixes that define the thousandths and millionths and billionths of nano… pico (million-millionth), femto (million-billionth), atto (billion-billionth), zepto (billion-trillionth), yocto (trillion-trillionth).

Does nano mean small?

Just how small is “nano?” In the International System of Units, the prefix "nano" means one-billionth, or 10-9; therefore one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. It's difficult to imagine just how small that is, so here are some examples: A sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick.

What does giga mean in English?

giant Giga is derived from the Greek word γίγας (gígas), meaning "giant." The Oxford English Dictionary reports the earliest written use of giga in this sense to be in the Reports of the IUPAC 14th Conference in 1947: "The following prefixes to abbreviations for the names of units should be used: G giga 109×." ...

Does G mean billion?

Giga (/ˈɡɪɡə/ or /ˈdʒɪɡə/) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of a short-scale billion or long-scale milliard (1000000). It has the symbol G. ... When referring to information units in computing, such as gigabyte, giga may sometimes mean 1073741824 (230); this causes ambiguity.

Does giga mean giant?

Giga is derived from the Greek γίγας, meaning 'giant'. The Oxford English Dictionary reports the earliest written use of giga in this sense to be in the Reports of the IUPAC 14th Conference in 1947: "The following prefixes to abbreviations for the names of units should be used: G giga 109×".

What is the example of quantity?

Quantity is defined as an amount, measure or number. An example of quantity is how many apples are in a barrel. A specific measured amount. This bag would normally costs $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.

How do you represent quantity?

Symbol to Represent Quantity

1. Numbers and digits are the symbols used to represent a quantity.
2. Digits are the numbers 0 to 9.
3. The Decimal Number System is based on the quantities of 10.
4. Base-10 is expressed as 10 to the power of a factor of X.

Whats bigger Hecto or Deca?

The units are larger than the base unit to the left of the base unit. ... A 'deca' therefore means ten times the base unit,' hecto' means ten times the 'deca' or a hundred times the base unit, and 'kilo' means ten times the 'hecto' or a thousand times the base unit.

Is deci bigger than Deca?

For example, adding kilo- to the unit “meter” makes “kilometer,” or one thousand meters....Metric Prefixes for Length.

Metric Prefix	Place Value Definition	Usage for Length
deci-	0.1 (tenth)	decimeter
	1 (one)	meter (no prefix for base unit)
deca- (or deka-)	10 (ten)	decameter (or dekameter)
hecto-	100 (hundred)	hectometer

Is Nano smaller than micro?

Nanometer A nanometer is 1000 times smaller than a micrometer. 1 micrometer (μm) = 1000 nanometers.

Why does pico have a gun?

Pico has untreated schizophrenia. This causes him to keep his weapons on him at all times due to his fear of being attacked. It is very likely he developed it after the events of Pico's School as it would have traumatized him severely.