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Meanings of millimetre in English

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мм
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mm
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mm
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mm

Unit of length 1/1000th of a metre.

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        Usage of millimetre in English
        1
        Within a split second seventy-five nine-millimetre rounds would be in the air.
        61 hours
        2
        Half a millimetre of glass thickness round the stein is quite sufficient.
        On Laboratory Arts
        3
        Carla's grin spread millimetre by millimetre as her attacks slammed into him.
        Monster republic
        4
        Add a millimetre here, take away a fraction of an inch there.
        The Guardian
        5
        The trooper was caught inside the hail of millimetre- and centimetre-scale fragments.
        Surface detail
        6
        They had a few 149-millimetre guns at Sagrado, targeting those Habsburg trenches.
        The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
        7
        Then it transpired that Woakes had overstepped by a millimetre or two.
        The Guardian
        8
        He whirled and came within a millimetre of blowing Hudson's head off.
        The Complete Alien Omnibus
        9
        Suppose we can image a cubic millimetre of brain in two weeks.
        The Guardian
        10
        The region needs several 50 millimetre dumps, but not all at once please!
        Radio NZ
        11
        However, just one millimetre of rain fell at the track yesterday.
        The Irish Times
        12
        The security scan works on the basis of millimetre wave technology.
        Reuters
        13
        The drones are able to create 3D images with millimetre accuracy.
        BBC
        14
        The law says your tyres must have at least a one millimetre tread.
        The South African
        15
        Heat a five millimetre depth of olive oil in a large frying pan.
        The South African
        16
        We understand everything about it down to the millimetre and millisecond.
        News.com.au
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