millimeter
noun/ˈmɪlɪˌmiːtər/
Frequency rank: #11,396 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
Example sentence
The doctor said the tumor had grown by just one millimeter since the last scan.
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