millimeter
MIL-uh-mee-ter/ˈmɪləˌmitɚ/UKMIL-i-mee-tuh/ˈmɪlɪˌmiːtə/
Pluralmillimeters
UK spellingmillimetre
- 1A very small unit for measuring length. A meter has 1,000 of them. Its short form is mm.
Draw a line one millimeter from the edge of the paper.
The rain left only a few millimeters of water in the bucket.
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Origin
It comes from the French word millimètre.