millivolt

Questions about millivolt

What does millivolt mean?

millivolt means "a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt".

How many syllables are in millivolt?

millivolt has 3 syllables and divides as mil-li-volt 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 millivolt?

Close synonyms include mV. 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 millivolt a common word?

millivolt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.