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Clean Terms

Atomically Precise Manufacturing

Defined on the main page.
This term was heavily used in the book "Radical Abundace: how a revolution in nanotechnology will change civilisation" to solve perception problems.

Atomically Precise Technology

Umberella term for APM and the products creatable with APM.
It should be used in place of "Molecular Nanotechnology".

Mechanosynthesis

Defined on the "mechanosynthesis" page.

Machine Phase

Defined on the "machine phase" page

Machine Phase Chemistry / Mechanochemistry

Defined on the "tooltip chemistry" page.

Diamondoid Materials

Defined on the "diamondoid" page.

Diamondoid Molecular Elements

Dedined on the "diamondoid molecular elements" page.

Here's a suggestion for a more catchy and usable name: crystolecules

Advanced Molecular Machinery

A bit too generic like "Nanomedicine".

Molecular Assembler

Defined on the "technology level III" page

Molecular Manufacturing

Good for as an umbrella term for all APM technology levels.

Terms Containing "Nano"

Somewhat acceptable terms

Molecular Nanotechnology

This is the most widely used term for AP technology as of (2013)
Google searches yield the most relevant results when this term is used.
Wikipedia uses this still as the main term Moelcular nanotechnology

Productive nanosystems

Defined on the technology level III page.

This is currently the prevalently used term. APM systems could be used as alternative.

Nanofactories

Currently prevalently used term. atomically precise small scale factory or atomically precise 3D printers could be used as alternative.

Advanced Nanotechnology

There is also advanced nanotechnology in the biological direction, so this term is too unspecific and should be avoided.

Nanomechanics - Ok

Nanorobotics / Robotic Nanotechnology - Ok

Nanostructures - in context Ok

Nanocosmos - in context Ok

Nanoscale - in context Ok

Machine Phase Nanotechnology - Ok (but uncommon)

Nanomedicine

Somewhat vague, medicine has always had subject areas about nano sized compounds.

Anorganic Nanorobotics

Freely made up here, but seems quite fitting for technology level III

Terms to Avoid

Nanotechnology

This term is way too generic and has lost its original meaning. See "history" for more information.
The term Makrotechnology has the same specificity and it's clear why no one uses it.

Nanobots or Nanomachines

Spurs misinformed thoughts of artificial lifeforms.

Nanites or Nanobugs

Makes sure one thinks of life like creatures which are dangerous out of this reason.

Nanosubmarines

Not that bad for speculative medical nanodevices but propulsion and interaction with nanobiology is often imagined in wrong nonphysical ways.

General Terms

technological evolution

Before using it check if you really mean evolution not an other type of improvement process like targeted design.
Some evolutionary traits:

• lots of unexpected mergement of seemingly unrelated ideas
• brute force trial and error visiting much more dead ends than successful continuation points

In a strict observation the term technology generation inherits the meaning of evolution too.

the flawed biological analogies

Theres at least as much difference as there is overlap with biological concepts. Using biological terms makes one see only the overlaps and usually lead to a very flawed and twisted picture of AP systems. The list below can be used as a starting point for a dictionary. If you think of the left use the right.

• whomb - building chamber / mechanosynthetic core
• reproduction - replication
• grow(th/ing) - build(ing) up
• seed of ... - proto ...
• ingestion / eating - take in
• excretion / (you can guess) - expulsion
• metabolism - resource management / material management / recycling
• limbs / arms / legs - manipulators / grippers / linkages / ...