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What is a nanoparticle?

What is a nanoparticle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter. In aerosol science, the term is often reserved for particles less than 50 nm in diameter; the term "ultrafine particles" is used for particles less than 100 nm in diameter.
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We investigate the budding and fission of a vesicle induced by the adhesion of the nanoparticle.
A nanoparticle can be embedded in the wall of an individual cell that can then be monitored.
A single nanoparticle inside of one cell would be equivalent to an ant inside an automobile.
Specifically, the group has succeeded in implanting a gold nanoparticle with a diameter of 1.2 nm into the enzyme glucose oxidase.
A nanoparticle one billionth of a meter long may hold the key to a new concept of magnetic imaging in the brain.
New synthetic nanoparticle could disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water and then get removed magnetically.

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