millimeters
MIL-uh-mee-turz/ˈmɪləˌmitɚz/UKMIL-i-mee-tuhz/ˈmɪlɪˌmiːtəz/
UK spellingmillimetres
- 1Plural of millimeter.
Heavy rainfall dropped almost ninety millimeters of water in a single afternoon.
The machinist trimmed the part down by two millimeters to make it fit.
Note
The American spelling of the plural; outside US conventions the same unit is written millimetres, with -re. The plural follows every quantity except exactly one, so decimals and zero take it too: 0.5 millimeters, zero millimeters, but one millimeter. A careful writer matches the -er or -re spelling to the rest of the text.
millimeters is a form of millimeter
millimeter, noun: A unit of length in the SI and MKS systems, equal to one thousandth of a meter and written with the symbol mm. Full entry
- Forms
- millimetermillimeters plural
- Spelling
- millimeter → millimeters: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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