Millimeters

"Millimeters" in a Sentence (10 examples)

This ruler has the scale in millimeters.

Very high demands are placed on the fitting accuracy of the tubing. The error tolerance is normally in the range of one to a few millimeters.

Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life.

Plastic debris can come in all shapes and sizes, but those that are less than five millimeters in length (or about the size of a sesame seed) are called “microplastics.”

The iPad 2 has around 9 millimeters of thickness.

The study showed the glacier melt was raising sea levels by about 0.74 millimeters a year, or 21 percent of overall sea level rise observed during the period.

Three hundred millimeters of precipitation fell overnight.

Three hundred millimeters of rain fell overnight.

For the first time in more than 100 years, scientists have discovered a new species living in New York's Central Park. The creature is a tiny centipede, just 10 millimeters long. But, in the world of science, this bug cuts a wide swath.

There is a new mechanical surgeon, equipped with two tiny pincers 1.8 millimeters in diameter, which is delicate enough to perform eye operations with more accuracy than human hands.

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