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  • noun Plural form of micrometer.

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Examples

  • Men who aren't prepared to go fully nude can set an electric razor to one or zero, leaving hair so short it can be measured in micrometers.

    The Shorn Identity Christina binkley 2010

  • A very LOW percentage of the incoming radiation is INFRARED radiation longwavelength: 0.8 to 2 micrometers, which is also known as heat radiation.

    Think Progress » 13% of Americans have never heard of global warming, 2007

  • If properly fitted and worn correctly, N95 respirators filter out at least 95 percent of particles as small as 0.3 micrometers, which is smaller than influenza viruses, the report notes.

    CNN.com 2009

  • In the optical microscope, the Abbe limit of resolution for optical images is 0.22 micrometers, meaning that a digitizer must be capable of sampling at intervals that correspond in the specimen space to 0.11 micrometers or less.

    unknown title 2009

  • In the optical microscope, the Abbe limit of resolution for optical images is 0.22 micrometers, meaning that a digitizer must be capable of sampling at intervals that correspond in the specimen space to 0.11 micrometers or less.

    unknown title 2009

  • In the optical microscope, the Abbe limit of resolution for optical images is 0.22 micrometers, meaning that a digitizer must be capable of sampling at intervals that correspond in the specimen space to 0.11 micrometers or less.

    unknown title 2009

  • With conventional technology employing gold or solder bumps, it is impossible to make the bumps smaller than 20-25 micrometers, meaning that the bumps cannot be directly connected to the extremely miniature electrodes on the heat-source transistors.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • Desert varnish thickens at an extremely slow pace, on the order of between 1 and 40 micrometers or 0.000003937 to 0.00015748 inches per every thousand years, so it has been impossible to experiment definitively with it in the lab.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • In the lab, adult teeth soaked in white wine for a day had a loss of both calcium and another mineral called phosphorus to depths of up to 60 micrometers in the enamel surface, which the researchers say is significant.

    White Wine May Be Bad For Your Teeth 2009

  • Then, a line of tiny holes, less than one-millionth of a meter in diameter, is punched into the metal, spaced five micrometers apart.

    Television 2010

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