ligne

[ leen; French leen-yuh ]

noun,plural lignes [leenz; French leen-yuh]. /linz; French ˈlin yə/.
  1. (in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.

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<French: line1

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