millimetre
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The dust grains around R Doradus are typically only about one ten-thousandth of a millimetre across.
From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026
Other leagues, including the top flights in Germany, Spain and Italy, have gone back to offside by the millimetre.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026
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 • Jan. 2, 2026
Mr Botero claims that less than a millimetre of this coating will provide the same insulating effect as 40 millimetres of foam.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024
It has been found that the “carbons” in drills can safely be subjected to a pressure of over 60 kilograms per square millimetre, and a speed of 25 metres per second.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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