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millimeter
[ mil-uh-mee-ter ]
noun
- a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch. : mm
millimeter
/ mĭl′ə-mē′tər /
- A unit of length in the metric system equal to 0.001 meter.
- See Table at measurement
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Other Words From
- mil·li·met·ric [mil-, uh, -, me, -trik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of millimeter1
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Example Sentences
The image above was constructed with longer-wavelength light, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
My prayers are answered, and Mitchum stops one millimeter from my head.
Two bubbles less than a millimeter apart might have radically different temperature, density, and other important properties.
Why go patrolling with a nine-millimeter pistol if you are not angrily hankering to use it?
The ship now shifts slightly with the rise and fall of the low Mediterranean tides, moving about a millimeter an hour.
The normal number of leukocytes varies from 5000 to 10,000 per cubic millimeter of blood.
The nine-millimeter rifles were said to be large enough for nearly all purposes, but not reassuring in extremely close quarters.
The famous seventy-five-millimeter gun was again proving itself the most terrible of mobile field weapons.
Measuring with a millimeter scale, we find on the map for the diameter of the crater Copernicus, 2.1 millimeters.
Millimeter by millimeter again, I teased it free of her pocket, stopping twice when she snuffled and twitched.
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