ronto- — English Dictionary

Prefix

1. In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10⁻²⁷ (short scale octillionth or long scale quadrilliardth). Symbol: r

   Usage

   • morpheme

   Synonyms

   xenno-

   Antonyms

   ronna-

   Examples

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   For example, 1 ronnameter (Rm) is 1 billion billion billion meters and 1 quettameter (Qm), 1000 times bigger still; 1 rontometer (rm) is one-billionth of a billionth of a billionth of 1 meter and 1 quectometer (qm), one-thousandth of that.

   Earth’s mass is on the order of a ronnagram, and an electron’s mass is about one rontogram.

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   Infinite degrees of separation (picoseconds, femtoseconds, attoseconds, zeptoseconds, yoctoseconds, rontoseconds, quectoseconds, etcetera) exist between any nanosecond and its immediate successor.

   We applied these models for systems ranging from a small isolated molecule, for which the collapse time is of the order of a billion years, to mesoscopic crystals, whose collapse could occur within days, and macroscopic systems, collapsing within a rontosecond (10⁻²⁷ s).