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Micron
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Micron has 1 sense
- micron(n = noun.quantity) micrometer - a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter; Array is a kind of metric linear unit
has parts: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometer, nanometre, nm
is a part of millimeter, millimetre, mm
CIDE DICTIONARY
Micron, n. [NL., fr. Gr. mikro`s small.].
A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Micron, n. one-millionth of a metre.
Etymology
Gk mikron neut. of mikros small: cf. MICRO-
ROGET THESAURUS
Micron
Length
N length, longitude, span, mileage, distance, line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius, lengthening, prolongation, production, protraction, tension, tensure, extension, line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league, chain, link, arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara, astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec, nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km, pedometer, perambulator, scale, long, longsome, lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched, lengthened, sesquipedalian, interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear, lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c (shorten), lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along, tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft.
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