Micrometer

//maɪˈkɹɑmɪtəɹ//

"Micrometer" in a Sentence (3 examples)

You'll need a micrometer to measure the change in length.

A micrometer is one millionth of a meter.

In a report, published in the magazine Nature, a group of scientists say that X-ray and spectroscopic analysis of a small diamond found in magma from a Brazilian volcano showed a 40 micrometer speck of a mineral called ringwoodite.

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