micron
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmaɪkɹɒn/
micron (plural microns)
- (physics) The thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
- 2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water ↗
- As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).
- 2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water ↗
- (figurative) A very tiny amount.
- French: micron
- German: Mikron
- Portuguese: mícron, micrómetro (Portugal), micrômetro (Brazil)
- Russian: микро́н
- Spanish: micrón
micron (plural microns)
- (linguistics) Synonym of breve#English|breve
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