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millimetre

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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mil·li·me·tre British English, millimeter American English /ˈmɪləˌmiːtə $ -ər/ ●●○ S3 noun [countable] (written abbreviation mm)  TMa unit for measuring length. There are 1,000 millimetres in one metre. 毫米〔长度单位〕
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millimetreConversations with clients were tape-recorded and remote controlled 35 millimetre Olympus cameras took photographs in the bedrooms.The bullet gouged through Michael Rentas's right hand, but it was deflected, missing his skull by a millimetre.If an animal moves a millimetre out of the state park zones, it's dead.Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.Cells can not normally be seen without a microscope, being about one-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter.A tolerance of one millimetre means that the measurement has to be within one millimetre of what has been specified.Male speaker I thought one millimetre was good enough on this kind of car.
mil·li·me·tre nounChineseSyllable
measuring millimetres There unit length. Corpus 1,000 for are a


millimetre
millimetre S3 British English, millimeter American English /ˈmɪləˌmiːtə, ˈmɪlɪˌmiːtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] (written abbreviation mm)
a unit for measuring length. There are 1,000 millimetres in one metre.


🔑 milli·metre (especially US milli·meter) BrE /ˈmɪlimiːtə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmɪlimiːtər/ 🔊 noun (abbreviation mm) a unit for measuring length; a 1 000th of a metre 毫米;千分之一米