millimeter

noun/ˈmɪlɪˌmiːtər/

Frequency rank: #11,396 most common English word

Meaning

a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.

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Example sentence

The doctor said the tumor had grown by just one millimeter since the last scan.

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