Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the micrometer; made by the micrometer: as, micrometric measurements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
micrometry - adjective Measured using a
micrometer - adjective Having dimensions of the order of a
micrometre
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Examples
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In general, this ecoregion has mesothermic conditions with average annual temperatures of 24 – 12°C between 800 – 2,500 meters (m) altitude, and micrometric conditions with average annual temperatures of less than 12°C above 2,500 m.
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Eddington and his crew measured the stronger of the two images immediately, placing it in a micrometric measuring machine with the comparison photograph taken in January, film-to-film, to ascertain the displacement, if any.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Eddington and his crew measured the stronger of the two images immediately, placing it in a micrometric measuring machine with the comparison photograph taken in January, film-to-film, to ascertain the displacement, if any.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Eddington and his crew measured the stronger of the two images immediately, placing it in a micrometric measuring machine with the comparison photograph taken in January, film-to-film, to ascertain the displacement, if any.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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You see all those angles, calculated with micrometric precision.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.
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Scott's fingers, indeed, almost engulfed the first one of these he picked up, but he manipulated it, as always, with micrometric precision.
Spock Must Die Blish, James 1970
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Hamy in Paris - a series within which there is substantially closer agreement than it has been possible to achieve with normal micrometric observations through the biggest refracting telescopes of the present day.
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Flandry dressed with his usual finicky care in an ornate suit of skintight green and a golden cloak with hood and goggles, hung a needle gun and dueling sword at his waist, and let the slave trim his reddish-brown mustache to the micrometric precision he demanded.
Agent Of The Terran Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1965
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But inside each one the moving parts fitted with micrometric accuracy and with hair-spring balance.
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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