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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of length equal to one thousandth (10−3) of a micrometer or one billionth (10−9) of a meter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A unit of length (μμ) equal to 10 Ångström units, .001 microns, or .000001 millimeters: sometimes employed in microscopy or in stating wave-lengths of light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The thousandth part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; -- a unit of length used in measuring light waves, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
unit oflength equal to onethousandth of amicron
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter
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The units commonly used for this measurement are the millimicron which is denoted by the symbol uu, which equals one millioneth of a millimeter; and the Angstrom Unit (A.U.), which is one-tenth millioneth of a millimeter.
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