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- adjective having a
size of the order of amillimeter
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Examples
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Bodies based on Truchet's system appear to have been used throughout the 18th century by the Imprimerie royale, until a 'millimetric' point of 0.4 mm was introduced at the Imprimerie impériale in about 1810 by Firmin Didot.
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His single carefully greased kiss-curl flipped over then whipped back with millimetric precision to its position above DeMarco's right eye.
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You don't use them for wingshooting, especially the millimetric bores-- you use them from blinds, over decoys, at ranges under 10 yards, to shoot small legal birds FOR FOOD.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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You don't use them for wingshooting, especially the millimetric bores-- you use them from blinds, over decoys, at ranges under 10 yards, to shoot small legal birds FOR FOOD.
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One camera, already built by a company called QinetiQ and working in so-called millimetric waves, has demonstrated the ability to eerily peer through clothes and reveal a concealed weapon -- as well as much of a person's body.
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She had applied her makeup with millimetric precision.
Esperanza’s Box of Saints María Amparo Escandón 1999
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I moved forward with millimetric stealth and my left eye and the barrel of the pistol went round the corner of the third booth at the same instant.
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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He did not expect to be using that door again, that night or any other night, and he had no wish to raise any eyebrows, however millimetric the raising: survival was a matter of the infinitely careful consideration of all possible dangers, no matter how remote that possibility might at times appear.
Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967
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If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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It brings, sends and stores data in vast batches at light speed, measures material and cuts it with sub-millimetric precision.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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