micrometer

Other forms of micrometer

plural

micrometers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about micrometer

What does micrometer mean?

micrometer means "a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in micrometer?

micrometer has 4 syllables: mi-cro-me-ter. The stress falls on "cro". In IPA it is /maɪˈkɹɑmətɚ/.

What is another word for micrometer?

Close synonyms include micron, micrometer gauge, micrometer caliper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is micrometer a common word?

micrometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.