millimeter
Credit card thickness
A millimeter is one thousandth of a meter, or about the thickness of a dime.
In countries using the metric system, millimeters measure small distances and precise dimensions: The tumor was only three millimeters.
American usage favors inches for everyday measurement but millimeters for technical contexts like firearms and film formats.
One who governs
- caliperTool measuring thickness or diameter
- gaugeStandard of measurement
- tapeAdhesive strip on roll
- scaleMeasure of relative size
protractor · length · width · height · depth · dimension · size · calibration
Degree of correctness
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- finenessPurity or thinness measure
gauge · machining · optics · instrumentation · engineering · spectrometry · tooling · laser
Extremely small in size
thin · slight · hairline · fraction · increment · paper-thin · wafer-thin · razor-thin
Universal measurement framework
- decimalTenths-based notation
- conversionAct of changing states
- unitIndividual part or measure
- prefixRoot-modifying front element
length · volume · cubic · standardization · notation
ruler
One who governs
scale · protractor · length · width · height · depth · dimension · size · calibration · measuring
accuracy
Degree of correctness
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- calibrationAdjusting for measurement accuracy
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
fineness · gauge · machining · optics · instrumentation · engineering · spectrometry · tooling · laser · nanotechnology
tiny
Extremely small in size
narrow · thin · slight · hairline · fraction · increment · paper-thin · wafer-thin · razor-thin · close
SI
Universal measurement framework
- decimalTenths-based notation
- conversionAct of changing states
- unitIndividual part or measure
prefix · length · volume · cubic · standardization · notation
- Length Unitsinch, foot, feet, yard, mile
- metric lengthspicometer, femtometer, megameter
- French Unitslitre, gram, kilogram, hectare, tonne
- metersspeedometer, odometer, barometer, pedometer, altimeter
- spatial scalesmicroscopic, macroscopic, nanoscale, atomic, molecular
- Metrologygram, kilogram, liter, hectare, tonne
millimeterkilometer
Thousand meters
mile · light-year · parsec · astronomical unit · meter
- nine millimeterHandgun cartridge diameter
- square millimeterMetric area unit, tiny