The Rice University Neologisms Database

The manipulation and control of matter at the inch scale. This is a composition of inch, a unit of measure, and technology, a word stemming from the Greek technikos. An o, a vowel insertion, is placed inbetween the words to separate consonants, and in this case to bear resemblance to the word nanotechnology where there is also an o seemingly in the middle of the two separate words. Therefore, the ‘o’ inserted in between inch and technology is a being used as a tool to blend two words together.