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millimetre

/ ˈmɪlɪˌmiːtə /

noun

  1. one thousandth of a metre mm
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Each globule of our blood is a world (and we have five millions per cubic millimetre).

The experiments made in beating gold-leaf show that ten thousand leaves are contained in the thickness of a millimetre.

It is white, cylindrical, straight and about four millimetres long by one millimetre thick.

It is a tiny, dull-white cylinder, about three millimetres long by half a millimetre wide.

The sting, by straying less than a millimetre, would leave the Scolia without progeny.

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