Explain to me what Nm is

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Can some-one explain what relation the term "nm" has in pieces of hardware such as GPU's and CPU's, I relise the lower nm the better the chip is, and it seems to be more important than clock speeds the way people bang on about it, but I have no idea what it is. Might be a daft question and I couldnt really make google understand enough to answer my question.
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nanometres.

It is how close the transistors on the chip are (I think), or how big the transistors are. Either way it means that more can be put in a smaller area.
 
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