What is "millimetres"

Usage examples of "millimetres".

The Himalayas, whose rise began maybe 50 million years ago, are still climbing heavenwards at an average rate of seven millimetres per year, double the speed of their advance ten million years ago, though such rates are by no means constant.

The absolute humidity, or partial pressure of aqueous vapour in the air, expressed in millimetres in the height of the mercury in the same way as the pressure of the atmosphere, follows in the main the temperature of the air.

His left hand went to his pocket, found another spike, placed it above the first, made the pencil-like scribbling movements untill the point caught, burrowed it in the first millimetres untill it held, brought up the hammer, and began to tap.