MILLIMETRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millimetre mean? 

• MILLIMETRE (noun)
  The noun MILLIMETRE has 1 sense:

1. a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter

  Familiarity information: MILLIMETRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLIMETRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

millimeter; millimetre; mm

Hypernyms ("millimetre" is a kind of...):

metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)

Meronyms (parts of "millimetre"):

micrometer; micron (a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter)

Holonyms ("millimetre" is a part of...):

centimeter; centimetre; cm (a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter)

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

The particles of rock and ice in these belts vary in size from the tiniest dust grain, smaller than a millimetre across, up to asteroid-like bodies many kilometres in diameter.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

It grows by one millimetre every ninety seconds, making it one of the fastest growing plant materials.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Microfluidics deals with the behaviour and control of fluids in a constrained, typically sub-millimetre space.

(New approach promises better anaemia detection, SciDev.Net)

Microplastics are defined as pieces of plastic less than five millimetres in length, and include remnants of larger plastic items that have degraded, as well as polyethylene microbeads used in some health and beauty products.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)