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millimetre

British  
/ ˈmɪlɪˌmiːtə /

noun

  1.  mm.  one thousandth of a metre

"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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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

Not those hairline millimetre is he on or off line drawing nonsense situations.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2026

That is despite controversial "microscopic" VAR decisions, ruling to the millimetre.

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

The dust grains around R Doradus are typically only about one ten-thousandth of a millimetre across.

From Science Daily Jan. 12, 2026

The human spermatozoon is only fifty-four thousandths of a millimetre in length, and from forty-one to fifty-three thousandths of a millimetre are taken up by its flagellum.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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