[
US
/maɪˈkɹɑmətɝ/
]
NOUN
- a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter
- caliper for measuring small distances
How To Use micrometer In A Sentence
- Over 10,000 filar-micrometer and red light CCD measurements of Mars' north polar cap have been taken over the past 40 years, and they show that it has been shrinking. The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo.
- In fact, it can exhibit ordered structures with length scales ranging from micrometers to nanometers.
- a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer
- China has already obtained 0.25 and 0.35 micrometer technology for etching eight-inch wafers.
- The band from 0.1 to 0.4 micrometers is called ultraviolet radiation. Electromagnetic radiation
- Then, a line of tiny holes, less than one-millionth of a meter in diameter, is punched into the metal, spaced five micrometers apart. Television
- Challenge: today's chips contain millions of elements with features as small as a fraction of a micrometer (millionth of a meter), projected by visible light.
- The heights of accumulation at known time intervals are measured by optical micrometer and the particle sizes calculated from these figures.
- A careful adjustment of the experimental exchange times should allow the detection of confined motions for typical distance scales between nanometers and micrometers.
- It is not important that the reaction of micrometer - aluminum powder with water.