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millimicron
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun millimicron has 1 sense
- millimicron(n = noun.quantity) micromillimeter, micromillimetre, nanometer, nanometre, nm - a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter; Array is a kind of metric linear unit
has parts: a, angstrom, angstrom unit
is a part of micrometer, micron
CIDE DICTIONARY
millimicron, n. [Milli- + micron.].
The thousandth part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; -- a unit of length used in measuring light waves, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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millimicron
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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