millimeter

See also: Millimeter, milliméter, and milli-meter

English

Alternative forms

• millimetre (UK)
• millimètre (rare)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French millimètre, as if milli- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

millimeter (plural millimeters)

1. (American spelling) An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of 1/1000 of a meter. Symbol: mm

Translations

unit of measure

• Arabic: مِلِّيمِتْر m (millīmitr)
• Armenian: միլիմետր (hy) (milimetr)
• Asturian: milímetru m
• Azerbaijani: millimetr
• Belarusian: мілімэ́тар m (milimétar)
• Bulgarian: милиме́тър (bg) m (milimétǎr)
• Catalan: mil·límetre m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 毫米 (hou⁴ mai⁵), 公釐 (gung¹ lei⁴), 公厘 (gung¹ lei⁴)

  Hakka: 毫米 (hò-mí), 米釐米特, 米厘米特 (mi-li-mi-tèr)

  Mandarin: 毫米 (zh) (háomǐ), 公釐 (gōnglí), 公厘 (zh) (gōnglí)

  Min Nan: 毫米 (zh-min-nan) (hô-bí), 公釐 (zh-min-nan), 公厘 (zh-min-nan) (kong-lî)

• Czech: milimetr (cs) m
• Danish: millimeter (da) c
• Dutch: millimeter (nl)
• Esperanto: milimetro
• Estonian: millimeeter
• Faroese: millimetur m
• Finnish: millimetri (fi)
• French: millimètre (fr) m
• Galician: milímetro (gl) m
• Georgian: მილიმეტრი (milimeṭri)
• German: Millimeter (de) m
• Greek: χιλιοστόμετρο (el) n (chiliostómetro)
• Hindi: मिलीमीटर n (milīmīṭar), सहस्रिमान n (sahasrimān)
• Hungarian: milliméter (hu)
• Icelandic: millimetri (is) m
• Ido: milimetro (io)
• Interlingua: millimetro
• Italian: millimetro (it) m
• Japanese: ミリメートル (ja) (mirimētoru), ミリ (ja) (miri)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Khmer: មិល្លីម៉ែត្រ (km) (millii-maet)
• Korean: 밀리미터 (ko) (millimiteo), 밀리 (milli)
• Lao: ມິລິແມັດ (lo) (mi li mæt)
• Latvian: milimetrs
• Lithuanian: milimetras (lt)
• Macedonian: милиме́тар m (milimétar)
• Malagasy: milimetatra (mg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: millimeter m

  Nynorsk: millimeter m

• Polish: milimetr (pl) m
• Portuguese: milímetro (pt) m
• Romanian: milimetru (ro) m
• Russian: миллиме́тр (ru) m (millimétr)
• Sanskrit: सहस्रिमान n (sahasrimāna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мѝлиметар m

  Roman: mìlimetar (sh) m

• Slovak: milimeter m
• Slovene: milimeter m
• Spanish: milímetro (es) m
• Swahili: milimita
• Swedish: millimeter (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalibopanukat, milimetro
• Telugu: మిల్లీమీటరు (millīmīṭaru)
• Turkish: milimetre (tr)
• Ukrainian: міліме́тр m (milimétr)
• Urdu: ملِیمیٹر m (milīmīṭar)
• Uyghur: مىللىمېتىر (millimëtir)
• Vietnamese: milimet
• Yiddish: מילימעטער m (milimeter)

Further reading

• “millimeter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• millimeter, millimetre at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• millimetre, millimètre

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Danish

Etymology

milli- +‎ meter

Noun

millimeter c (singular definite millimeteren, plural indefinite millimeter)

1. millimetre, or millimeter (US) (SI unit of length)

Declension

Declension of millimeter

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	millimeter	millimeteren	millimeter	millimeterne
genitive	millimeters	millimeterens	millimeters	millimeternes

References

• “millimeter” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

milli- +‎ meter

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

millimeter

1. millimeter

Further reading

• “millimeter” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

millimeter m (definite singular millimeteren, indefinite plural millimeter, definite plural millimeterne)

1. a millimetre, or millimeter (US) (SI unit of length)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

millimeter m (definite singular millimeteren, indefinite plural millimeter, definite plural millimeterane or millimetrane)

1. a millimetre, or millimeter (US) (SI unit of length)

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Swedish

Etymology

milli- +‎ meter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪlɪˈmeːtɛr/, /ˈmɪlɪmeːtɛr/

Noun

millimeter c

1. a millimetre

Usage notes

Indefinite form plural could also be millimetrar/millimetrars

Declension

Declension of millimeter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	millimeter	millimeters
	definite	millimetern	millimeterns
plural	indefinite	millimeter	millimeters
	definite	millimeterna	millimeternas

See also

• ha millimetrarna på sin sida

Further reading

• millimeter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)