micromicron

Questions about micromicron

What does micromicron mean?

micromicron means "a metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter".

How many syllables are in micromicron?

micromicron has 4 syllables and divides as mi-cro-mi-cron under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for micromicron?

Close synonyms include picometer, picometre. 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 micromicron a common word?

micromicron 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.