Millimetre
noun
A unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre.
The gap between the door and the floor is about five millimetres.
Often appears as...
- one millimetre
- millimetre ruler
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Technical
noun
A measure used in the printing industry, equivalent to approximately 2.83 points.
The text font is set to ten millimetres.
Often appears as...
- font millimetre
- print millimetre
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Technical,Academic
noun
In automotive engineering, a unit used to measure the size of parts and components.
The piston has a diameter of 85 millimetres.
Often appears as...
- diameter millimetre
- engine millimetre
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre.
The gap between the door and the floor is about five millimetres.
Often appears as...
- one millimetre
- millimetre ruler
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A measure used in the printing industry, equivalent to approximately 2.83 points.
The text font is set to ten millimetres.
Often appears as...
- font millimetre
- print millimetre
Usage tips
Technical,Academic
noun
In automotive engineering, a unit used to measure the size of parts and components.
The piston has a diameter of 85 millimetres.
Often appears as...
- diameter millimetre
- engine millimetre
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Precision Matters
Millimetre is often used when accuracy is crucial in measurements for technical fields.
Ensure the lengths are correct to the nearest millimetre.
Pro Tip 2/3Visualize Size
Picture a millimetre as about the thickness of a credit card to grasp its small size.
Cut the paper five millimetres thick, like a credit card's edge.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Usage
Millimetre is frequently used in everyday life, from school rulers to rainfall measurements.
The ruler shows that your nail is ten millimetres long.
Pro Tip 1/3Precision Matters
Millimetre is often used when accuracy is crucial in measurements for technical fields.
Ensure the lengths are correct to the nearest millimetre.
Pro Tip 2/3Visualize Size
Picture a millimetre as about the thickness of a credit card to grasp its small size.
Cut the paper five millimetres thick, like a credit card's edge.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Usage
Millimetre is frequently used in everyday life, from school rulers to rainfall measurements.
The ruler shows that your nail is ten millimetres long.
Pro Tip 1/3Precision Matters
Millimetre is often used when accuracy is crucial in measurements for technical fields.
Ensure the lengths are correct to the nearest millimetre.
Pro Tip 2/3Visualize Size
Picture a millimetre as about the thickness of a credit card to grasp its small size.
Cut the paper five millimetres thick, like a credit card's edge.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Usage
Millimetre is frequently used in everyday life, from school rulers to rainfall measurements.
The ruler shows that your nail is ten millimetres long.
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Do Elephants Cry? PIPE...
We get a lot of questions about that at the zoo Elephants have big ears to help keep them cool. As you can imagine, an elephant skin is really thick, can be up to an inch and a half thick on the elbows and the knees. But behind the ears, it's only about a millimetre, millimetre and a half thick, And the ear is full of blood vessels. So what happens is the blood gets pumped to the ear. They'll flap their ears cool it down.
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Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
how thick this bone is it's about a millimeter thick forms the side of the cheek of this dinosaur now here's a look at a reconstruction of the tooth Batteries I found a bone that was so bizarre initially when we had begun to clean it off in the lab I disowned it I said all the rest of the bones belong to
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How close are we to...
Our understanding of the brain isn’t good enough to determine what we’d need to scan in order to replicate the mind, but assuming our knowledge does advance to that point, how would we scan it? Currently, we can accurately scan a living human brain with resolutions of about half a millimeter
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Filming the Kung Fu...
but we could also be really really precise on tiny subjects obviously the plane of focus is sometimes just a millimeter deep so it's very hard work and the cameraman alistair was working constantly just adjusting the focus but also every time you touch the camera tiny movement on the camera
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The otherworldly...
to minuscule animals smaller than a millimeter. How do so many species thrive in this underwater world? Over the decades, intrepid scientists have ventured there to find out. Traveling down through the water column, pressure increases and light begins to wane.
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
not being aware of another population of ants on the other. So there could be another universe just a millimeter away from ours, but we're not aware of it because that millimeter is measured in some fourth spatial dimension, and we're imprisoned in our three.
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Jinha Lee: Reach into...
and digital information, the gap between our physical world and the world in the screen where our imagination can go wild. And this gap has become shorter, shorter, and even shorter, and now this gap is shortened down to less than a millimeter,
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Todd Humphreys: How to...
Imagine, for example, an augmented reality app that overlays a virtual world to millimeter-level precision on top of the physical world. I could build for you a structure up here in 3D, millimeter accurate, that only you could see,
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Spotting the camel...
they are roughly a millimeter as long as you can see they're not close up to all the children and young people watching these parents and grandparents let's plenty to see learn and discover out there and I wish to encourage each
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Barbed Cat Penis PIPE...
tiny hooks each about a millimeter long they're made of keratin a tough fibrous protein normally found in nails and claws as the male withdraws the hooks scraped the walls of the vagina the barbs have two functions they help
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Do Elephants Cry? PIPE...
We get a lot of questions about that at the zoo Elephants have big ears to help keep them cool. As you can imagine, an elephant skin is really thick, can be up to an inch and a half thick on the elbows and the knees. But behind the ears, it's only about a millimetre, millimetre and a half thick, And the ear is full of blood vessels. So what happens is the blood gets pumped to the ear. They'll flap their ears cool it down.
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Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
how thick this bone is it's about a millimeter thick forms the side of the cheek of this dinosaur now here's a look at a reconstruction of the tooth Batteries I found a bone that was so bizarre initially when we had begun to clean it off in the lab I disowned it I said all the rest of the bones belong to
Video examples
How close are we to...
Our understanding of the brain isn’t good enough to determine what we’d need to scan in order to replicate the mind, but assuming our knowledge does advance to that point, how would we scan it? Currently, we can accurately scan a living human brain with resolutions of about half a millimeter
Video examples
Filming the Kung Fu...
but we could also be really really precise on tiny subjects obviously the plane of focus is sometimes just a millimeter deep so it's very hard work and the cameraman alistair was working constantly just adjusting the focus but also every time you touch the camera tiny movement on the camera
Video examples
The otherworldly...
to minuscule animals smaller than a millimeter. How do so many species thrive in this underwater world? Over the decades, intrepid scientists have ventured there to find out. Traveling down through the water column, pressure increases and light begins to wane.
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
not being aware of another population of ants on the other. So there could be another universe just a millimeter away from ours, but we're not aware of it because that millimeter is measured in some fourth spatial dimension, and we're imprisoned in our three.
Video examples
Jinha Lee: Reach into...
and digital information, the gap between our physical world and the world in the screen where our imagination can go wild. And this gap has become shorter, shorter, and even shorter, and now this gap is shortened down to less than a millimeter,
Video examples
Todd Humphreys: How to...
Imagine, for example, an augmented reality app that overlays a virtual world to millimeter-level precision on top of the physical world. I could build for you a structure up here in 3D, millimeter accurate, that only you could see,
Video examples
Spotting the camel...
they are roughly a millimeter as long as you can see they're not close up to all the children and young people watching these parents and grandparents let's plenty to see learn and discover out there and I wish to encourage each
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Barbed Cat Penis PIPE...
tiny hooks each about a millimeter long they're made of keratin a tough fibrous protein normally found in nails and claws as the male withdraws the hooks scraped the walls of the vagina the barbs have two functions they help
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Anne Lamott
American Author
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
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Joni Ernst
American Politician
I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere. But I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family - whether it's from an intruder or whether it's from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.
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Bruno Sammartino
Italian Wrestler
When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it's going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.
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Billy Monger
British Driver
But braking is so difficult, especially in single-seaters. You're millimetres from locking up in the braking zones. Having to feel that through the hands? You don't get anything like the same feedback when you hit a pedal and feel it push back against you.
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Gavin Hood
South African Director
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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Ali Larter
American Model
But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.
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Amy McGrath
American Politician
I'll tell ya, I'm a pro-Second Amendment person, I'm a gun owner. I went to combat with a 9 millimeter strapped to my chest and a 20 millimeter cannon on the front of my jet. I'm no stranger to weapons.
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George Orwell
British Author
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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Andrea Pirlo
Italian Athlete
In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Anne Lamott
American Author
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
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Joni Ernst
American Politician
I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere. But I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family - whether it's from an intruder or whether it's from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.
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Bruno Sammartino
Italian Wrestler
When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it's going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.
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Billy Monger
British Driver
But braking is so difficult, especially in single-seaters. You're millimetres from locking up in the braking zones. Having to feel that through the hands? You don't get anything like the same feedback when you hit a pedal and feel it push back against you.
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Gavin Hood
South African Director
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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Ali Larter
American Model
But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.
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Amy McGrath
American Politician
I'll tell ya, I'm a pro-Second Amendment person, I'm a gun owner. I went to combat with a 9 millimeter strapped to my chest and a 20 millimeter cannon on the front of my jet. I'm no stranger to weapons.
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George Orwell
British Author
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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Andrea Pirlo
Italian Athlete
In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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