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  • n  a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter

  • The crane picked the steel-encased glass up from the freight car millimetre by millimetre.
  • How was any portion of the course measured to a fraction of a millimetre over a distance of a mile and how was the position of the boat determined at two measured points to .
  • The contests are governed by only two rules: 1) contestants must not have professional assistance; 2) they must not use 35 millimetre film and reduce it to the 8 or 16 .
News & Articles

  • Astronomers witness birth of Milky Way’s most massive star
    Astronomers used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array) telescope in Chile – the most powerful radio telescope in the world – to view the stellar womb which, at 500 times the mass of the Sun and many times more luminous, is the largest ever seen in our galaxy. read more        
    July 11, 2013 - TG Daily
Quotes

  • Alvaro Uribe in Aljazeera.net
    Uribe told the summit on Friday that he would "not cede one millimetre of sovereignty" under the deal. "We are not talking about a political game, we are talking about a threat that has spilled blood in Colombian society."
  • Alan Jones in NEWS.com.au
    They decided to monitor it at that stage,Jones said. "But it got bigger (by about a millimetre) and they decided to operate."
  • Lucas di Grassi in Times of India
    He's the most competitive guy that I know,said Di Grassi recently. "Everybody I know goes there (to the karting event) to have a good time and enjoy it and have fun. Michael goes there and spends two hours making a seat one millimetre...

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