millimeter
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- n a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter
- Only half a millimeter in diameter and four millimeters in length, the tiny submarine manufactured by Duisburg-based micromechanics firm microTEC (www.
- DBS electrodes measure just a millimeter thick, and implanting them is a painstaking procedure that begins with the indelicate task of boring a hole through the skull.
- Even the most stable brain operates just a millimeter from madness.