- a variation of millimeter.
millimetre
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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London and its suburbs are one of 19 English regions to have had no more than one millimetre of rainfall last month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
In Quaise's case, Kelso says, "millimetre wave drilling is really what changes that because we're not using a physical drill bit."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The dust grains around R Doradus are typically only about one ten-thousandth of a millimetre across.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 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
This pump is said to be simple and rapid in action, and capable of exhausting an 11-litre bulb from atmospheric pressure to .00001 millimetre in eighty seconds.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
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