This beam was raster scanned across a square target area 22 micrometers on a side.—IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2024 Dust and smoke are visible to the naked eye, but the particulates are actually so small — PM2.5 pollutants are 2.5 micrometers or smaller — that they can easily be inhaled, getting deep into lungs and bloodstream.—Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024 Many more came to light when the team started to make the spheres smaller, taking their size down to micrometer scale.—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024 Particles that are less than 10 micrometers and 2.5 micrometers in diameter are called PM10 and PM2.5, respectively.—Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for micrometer
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
French micromètre, from micr- + -mètre -meter
Noun (2)
International Scientific Vocabulary micr- + meter entry 3
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