millimicron

Other forms of millimicron

plural

millimicrons·

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 millimicron

What does millimicron mean?

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

How many syllables are in millimicron?

millimicron has 4 syllables: mil-li-mi-cron. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for millimicron?

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

millimicron 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.