Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An element meaning ‘thousand,’ also used for ‘a thousandth part,’ especially in words relating to physics: as, millimeter (the thousandth part of a meter).
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Examples
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An FSH level above 30 (in units called milli-international units per milliliter), as measured in a blood test on any of the first six days of a woman's period, is the most reliable indication that she is in perimenopause.
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By comparison, TEPCO says some of the workers at Fukushima-1 have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts note that milli is 1000 times micro.
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The mathematical formulas and algorithms put in place by banks to monetize every millisecond milli-transaction and squeeze profits out of them and our ever-increasing interconnectedness mean that a small unforeseen event now ripples around the world faster than the next banker has the time to take out his Blackberry and check the markets.
Vivian Norris: A Walk Through Paris With Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vivian Norris 2011
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The mathematical formulas and algorithms put in place by banks to monetize every millisecond milli-transaction and squeeze profits out of them and our ever-increasing interconnectedness mean that a small unforeseen event now ripples around the world faster than the next banker has the time to take out his Blackberry and check the markets.
Vivian Norris: A Walk Through Paris With Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vivian Norris 2011
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The mathematical formulas and algorithms put in place by banks to monetize every millisecond milli-transaction and squeeze profits out of them and our ever-increasing interconnectedness mean that a small unforeseen event now ripples around the world faster than the next banker has the time to take out his Blackberry and check the markets.
Vivian Norris: A Walk Through Paris With Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vivian Norris 2011
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By comparison, TEPCO says some of the workers at Fukushima-1 have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts note that milli is 1000 times micro.
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The rapid movement of capital in and out of markets has taken this kind of short term thinking to an extreme, like stock trades where the assets are literally held for milli-seconds.
RP Siegel: Al Gore Ties Senate Inaction on Climate to Unsustainable Business RP Siegel 2010
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By comparison, TEPCO says some of the workers at Fukushima-1 have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts note that milli is 1000 times micro.
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The milli - to picosecond time scales gave important information on chemical reactions.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Just how many events did, or should I say did not, take place in the milli-second that just elapsed?
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Chances Courts Would Strike Down the Individual Mandate 2010
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