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micrometer
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Wikipedia
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A micrometer , sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge , is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for precise measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological ...
WordNet
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n. caliper for measuring small distances [syn: micrometer gauge , micrometer caliper ] a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter [syn: micron ]
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 alt. An SI#Abbreviation/MKS unit of measure, the length of one one-millionth of a meter. Symbols: µm, um, rm n. An SI#Abbreviation/MKS unit of measure, the length of one one-millionth of a meter. Symbols: µm, um, rm Etymology 2 n. A device used ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from micro- + -meter . Originally a telescope attachment; from 1884 as a craftsman's fine measuring tool. Related: Micrometry ; micrometric .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Micrometer \Mi*crom"e*ter\, n. [Micro- + -meter: cf. F. microm[`e]tre.] An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And you had to sign a chit to use things like the height gauge, the big micrometers, calipers. ▪ She appeared to be searching for dust, fussing over square micrometers where maybe some of it had landed. ▪ Single-mode fibres also ...
Usage examples of micrometer.
Breckenridge sat motionless, his eyes flashing from, micrometer screen to signal panel, his sensitive fingers moving the potentiometers through minute arcs because of what he saw upon the screen and in response to the flashing, multicolored lights and tinkling signals of his board.
P6 came in almost upon the exact center of the micrometer screen, and Breckenridge smiled in relief as he began really to enjoy the trip.
Then, by delicately manipulating the variable condensers and inductances of, his sensitive shunting relay circuits, he slowly shifted that frightful rod of energy from frequency to frequency, staring into the brilliant blank-ness of his micrometer screen as he did so.
At the end of three days of the mad flight the pursuing spaceship was in plain sight, covering hundreds of divisions of the micrometer screens.
The relative absence of micrometer impact craters suggested that the artifact had not been captured all that long ago, perhaps as recently as a hundred thousand E-years.
This was done with a mechanical screw-type micrometer after the shell membranes were removed.
Luna is a silvery iridescent sphere, planed smooth down to micrometer heights, luminous with diffraction patterns.
It is evident, therefore, the micrometer must always be used in the same way.
Another worker was burnishing a heavily plated disk on a confiscated buffing machine, frequently checking results with a micrometer gauge.
I like things I can measure on a micrometer and calculate on a slide rule.
If the artifact changes course even a micrometer, I want to know about it.
Mordecai had been no more talkative than he had been earlier in the day, and if he was friendlier it would have taken a micrometer to measure it.
The ringing sets up something similar to a mental moire fringe interference pattern from which an experienced man can read the time differential with almost micrometer accuracy.
He thought of it as an aggregate entity, made of billions of cooperating organisms, each measured on the micrometer scale.
Jeri, the man with the micrometer fingers, has the situation under control.