You'll need a micrometer to measure the change in length.
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Micrometer
//maɪˈkɹɑmɪtəɹ//
Synonyms for "micrometer" (9 found)
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Related words (4)
Noun(4 words)
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8 entriesderived from
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10 entriesTranslations
68 translations across 44 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- ميكرومتر noun (instrument)
Basque
1 entries- mikrometro noun (instrument)
Catalan
2 entries- micròmetre noun (instrument)
- micròmetre noun (one millionth of a meter)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 千分尺 noun (instrument)
- 微米 noun (one millionth of a meter)
Czech
2 entries- mikrometr noun (instrument)
- mikrometr noun (one millionth of a meter)
Danish
1 entries- mikrometer noun (one millionth of a meter)
Dutch
2 entries- micrometer noun (instrument)
- micrometer noun (one millionth of a meter)
Esperanto
1 entries- mikrometro noun (one millionth of a meter)
Estonian
1 entries- kruvik noun (instrument)
Finnish
3 entries- mikrometri noun (instrument)
- mikrometri noun (one millionth of a meter)
- mikrometriruuvi noun (instrument)
French
2 entries- micromètre noun (instrument)
- micromètre noun (one millionth of a meter)
German
4 entries- Messschraube noun (instrument)
- Mikrometer noun (instrument)
- Mikrometer noun (one millionth of a meter)
- Mikrometerschraube noun (instrument)
Greek
1 entries- μικρόμετρο noun (one millionth of a meter)
Hebrew
1 entries- מיקרומטר noun (instrument)
Hindi
1 entries- सूक्ष्ममापी noun (instrument)
Hungarian
2 entries- mikrométer noun (instrument)
- mikrométer noun (one millionth of a meter)
Ido
1 entries- mikrometro noun (one millionth of a meter)
Indonesian
1 entries- mikrometer noun (instrument)
Interlingua
1 entries- micrometro noun (one millionth of a meter)
Irish
1 entries- micriméadar noun (one millionth of a meter)
Italian
2 entries- micrometro noun (instrument)
- micron noun (one millionth of a meter)
Japanese
2 entries- マイクロメータ noun (instrument)
- マイクロメートル noun (one millionth of a meter)
Korean
2 entries- 마이크로미터 noun (instrument)
- 마이크로미터 noun (one millionth of a meter)
Latin
1 entries- micrometrus noun (one millionth of a meter)
Latvian
1 entries- mikrometrs noun (instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- mikrometras noun (instrument)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Mikrometerschrauf noun (instrument)
Malay
3 entries- jangka halus noun (instrument)
- mikrometer noun (instrument)
- mikrometer noun (one millionth of a meter)
Norwegian
1 entries- mikrometer noun (instrument)
Persian
1 entries- میکرومتر noun (instrument)
Polish
2 entries- mikrometr noun (instrument)
- mikrometr noun (one millionth of a meter)
Portuguese
3 entries- micrómetro noun (instrument)
- micrómetro noun (one millionth of a meter)
- micrômetro noun (one millionth of a meter)
Romanian
1 entries- micrometru noun (instrument)
Russian
4 entries- микро́метр noun (instrument)
- микро́метр гла́дкий noun (instrument)
- микро́н noun (one millionth of a meter)
- микроме́тр noun (one millionth of a meter)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- mikrometarski vijak noun (instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- mikrometer noun (instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- mikrometer noun (instrument)
Spanish
2 entries- micrómetro noun (instrument)
- micrómetro noun (one millionth of a meter)
Swedish
2 entries- mikrometer noun (instrument)
- mikrometer noun (one millionth of a meter)
Tagalog
1 entries- mikrometro noun (one millionth of a meter)
Telugu
1 entries- మైక్రోమీటరు noun (one millionth of a meter)
Thai
1 entries- ไมโครเมตร noun (one millionth of a meter)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мікрометр noun (instrument)
Vietnamese
1 entries- micrômet noun (one millionth of a meter)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
A micrometer is one millionth of a meter.
Source: tatoeba (9935558)
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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