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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
millimetre
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A tolerance of one millimetre means that the measurement has to be within one millimetre of what has been specified.
▪ Cells can not normally be seen without a microscope, being about one-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter.
▪ Conversations with clients were tape-recorded and remote controlled 35 millimetre Olympus cameras took photographs in the bedrooms.
▪ If an animal moves a millimetre out of the state park zones, it's dead.
▪ Male speaker I thought one millimetre was good enough on this kind of car.
▪ The bullet gouged through Michael Rentas's right hand, but it was deflected, missing his skull by a millimetre.
▪ Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millimetre

Millimeter \Mil"li*me`ter\, Millimetre \Mil"li*me`tre\, n. [F. millim[`e]tre; milli- milli- + m[`e]tre. See 3d Meter.] A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

Wiktionary
millimetre

n. (context British English) An SI#Abbreviation/MKS unit of measure, the length of 1/1000 of a metre. Symbol: mm

millimètre

n. (rare spelling of millimetre English)

WordNet
millimetre

n. a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter [syn: millimeter, mm]

Wikipedia
Millimetre

The millimetre ( International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or millimeter ( American spelling) ( SI unit symbol mm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.

It is equal to micrometres or nanometres. A millimetre is equal to exactly (approximately 0.039370) of an inch.

Usage examples of "millimetre".

Four 650 millimetre and six 533 millimetre launch tubes for multiple weapons, including cruise missiles.

He would be able to empty the fifteen 9 millimetre Parabellum rounds within seconds should the need arise.

Below them lay the dull grey of the turret armour, the Breda twin 40 millimetre barrels elevated from the compact mounting in the centre.

Jack took a handful of the massive 14 millimetre cartridges and shoved them in beside the weapon.

As well as a fixed 30 millimetre high-speed cannon and two twenty-round pods of 80 millimetre rockets the Havoc and Werewolf each carried a lethal combination of laser-guided air-to-air and anti-ship missiles, weapons Jack had seen in the loading bay.

Like most close-support helicopters, the Werewolf was well protected against ground attack, the armoured shield round the cockpit designed to withstand 20 millimetre cannon strikes.

From the top shelf he took a Beretta 9 millimetre handgun to replace the one confiscated by Aslan and shoved it into his flight suit.

The great experimental merit of Aplysia, by contrast with Drosophila, which has as many neurons, or the octopus, which has far more, is that many of the Aplysia neurons are very large - up to a millimetre or so in diameter - and they are located in characteristic and recognizable patterns, which are reproducible from animal to animal.

The metallic object was a hand-held eight millimetre camera and the hands that held them were very steady indeed.

He was carrying not one but two strap-hung cameras, his eight millimetre cine and a very compact still camera with flashlight attachment.

Apart from slight bruising and two small indentations, there was little trace of where a twelve millimetre steel-capped bullet had punctured her skin and torn through her insides and exited at the back.

When they finally caught up with him, close to the LA Convention Center, they fired eleven rounds of 9 millimetre into his chest.

He drew the Glock 9 millimetre from the clip holster he wore inside the waist of his pants and with a finger in one ear silenced the loudspeaker with a couple of shots.

By a millimetre or so, the plutonium core was simply too big, or the hollow inside the bomb was too small.

The arterial pressure is found to be equal to the average of a column of mercury 150 millimetres, or 6 inches, in height.