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In some senses, micron is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
PREP.
about, per
noun
Synonym of micrometre (“one-millionth of a metre”).
2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).
The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds).
A very tiny amount.
noun
Synonym of breve.
noun — a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter
2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in
WiktionaryThe microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds)
WiktionaryLittle pozzolanic reaction is evident for glass above 300 microns but the pozzolanic activity increases as the particle size is reduced below this size with good pozzolanic properties generally being
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In some senses, micron is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.