micromillimetre

Other forms of micromillimetre

plural

micromillimetres·

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 micromillimetre

What does micromillimetre mean?

micromillimetre means "a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter".

How many syllables are in micromillimetre?

micromillimetre has 5 syllables and divides as mi-cro-mil-li-metre 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 micromillimetre?

Close synonyms include nanometer, nanometre, nm, millimicron, micromillimeter. 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 micromillimetre a common word?

micromillimetre 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.