OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13584

micron

/ˈmaɪkɹɒn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
micrón
Synonym of micrometre (“one-millionth of a metre”).
2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, m…
The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0…
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