submillimeter
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Etymology edit
- sub- + millimeter
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submillimeter (not comparable)
- (sciences) Less than a millimeter in size.
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Noun edit
submillimeter (plural submillimeters)
- (sciences) A unit or measurement that is less than a millimeter.
- 2022, Fouad Sabry, Brain Reading:
- The sizes vary from four to five millimeters, or with laminar resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (lfMRI), to submillimeters.