Prefixes for Powers of Ten Flashcards

Metric Prefixes for Powers of Ten

• atto-: Represents (10^{-18}), commonly used in scientific measurements related to extremely small quantities.
• femto-: Denotes (10^{-15}), often applied in fields like nuclear and particle physics.
• pico-: Indicates (10^{-12}), frequently encountered in nanotechnology and telecommunications.
• nano-: Represents (10^{-9}), widely used in chemistry, physics, and engineering, especially in nanomaterials.
• micro-: Signifies (10^{-6}), commonly seen in measurements for micrograms and micrometers.
• milli-: Stands for (10^{-3}), prevalent in everyday measurements like milliliters and milligrams.
• centi-: Denotes (10^{-2}), often used for centiliters and centimeters in metric measurements.
• deci-: Represents (10^{-1}), less common but used in deciliters and decimeters.
• deka-: Indicates (10^{1}), used in units like dekagram and dekaliter.
• kilo-: Stands for (10^{3}), widely known from everyday usage, like kilometers and kilograms.
• mega-: Represents (10^{6}), commonly used in computing (megabyte) and in science (megahertz).
• giga-: Denotes (10^{9}), prevalent in data storage and transfer rates (gigabytes, gigahertz).
• tetra-: Indicates (10^{12}), typically seen in scientific contexts for terascale measurements.
• exa-: Stands for (10^{18}), often used in large data processing and storage units (exabytes).
• Angstrom: Represents (10^{-10}), primarily used in fields like chemistry and physics to measure atomic scales.
• peta-: Denotes (10^{15}), utilized in large-scale measurements, such as petabytes in computing.