millimetre
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Kostas Lagouvardos, research director at the National Observatory in Athens, said the "extreme" weather phenomenon had dumped up to 170 millimetres of rain on the capital.
From Barron's
That is despite controversial "microscopic" VAR decisions, ruling to the millimetre.
From BBC
The dust grains around R Doradus are typically only about one ten-thousandth of a millimetre across.
From Science Daily
Other leagues, including the top flights in Germany, Spain and Italy, have gone back to offside by the millimetre.
From BBC
It sounds like something from the distant future, but nanotechnology - engineering at a scale of millionths of a millimetre - is already used in lots of everyday real-life tech.
From BBC
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