The dimensions of atoms must be less than a millionth of a millimetre in diameter.
Twenty cubic centimetres of oil spread over a lake will cover four thousand square metres, so that the layer of oil thus expanded measures only one two hundred thousandth of a millimetre in thickness.
A millimetrehas been divided on a glass plate into a thousand equal parts; and infusoria exist, which are so small that their entire bodies, placed between two of these divisions, do not touch either of them.
Penetration was calculated by placing frames, each holding five cards of 1 millimetre in thickness (equals .
One kind is in the form of little squares; another, for use in Hotchkiss guns, is formed into 3-millimetre cubes, and is black.
It can penetrate only a minute fraction of a millimetre into ordinary soft tissues.
The radii of these little disc-shaped marks when well defined are found to be remarkably uniform, in some cases four hundredths of a millimetre and in others three hundredths, about.
The counter-puncture is then made, the knife emerging 1 millimetre behind the corneo-sclerotic junction (Fig.
In making the counter-puncture the beginner is apt to go too far back in the sclerotic owing to the angle of the chamber being placed behind the limbus; he should therefore aim for a point about 1 millimetre inwards from the limbus.
She was a particularly short-muzzled 150-millimetre heavy field-howitzer, and she had been christened Julia in chalk letters across the back of her thick steel shield by the members of her devoted crew.
We have just definitely located a German blockhouse in their defense system and at two o'clock this afternoon we are going to destroy it with one of our 150-millimetre howitzers.
But as a matter of fact our route home takes us right by one 120-millimetre gun and we can have a look at that.
Mark the level of the fluid in the closed branch of the fermentation tube, at intervals of twenty-four hours, and when the evolution of gas has ceased, measure the length of the column of gas with the millimetre scale.
Cut up the organs with sterile scissors into small pieces--say 4 millimetre cubes.
The unit of length as applied to the measurement of microscopical objects is the one-thousandth part of a millimetre (0.
This is a 3 by 1 inch glass slip having engraved on it a scale divided to hundredths of a millimetre (0.
The ~eyepiece micrometer~ is a circular glass disc having engraved on it a scale divided to tenths of a millimetre (0.
Place a stage micrometer divided into hundredths of a millimetreon the microscope stage and focus accurately.
Petavel found a value of 147 candles per square millimetre for current densities varying from .
Following the plan employed by Nature in the construction of the bamboo pole, small partitions, approximately one millimetre thick, were placed every three inches in the thin, hollow rib to keep it from being crushed.
The target was a German battery of 150 millimetre or 6-inch guns located two kilometres back of the German first line trenches, and one kilometre in back of the boundary line between France and German-Lorraine.
The missile fired was a 75 millimetreor 3-inch high-explosive shell.
As I was being entertained by a French officer, who produced a glass of splendid red wine, some thirty shells burst over us, most of them of the 210-millimetre type.
Digging for a few moments, I unearthed the still warm timing-fuse of the 105-millimetre shell that had made the hole.
The human spermatozoon is only fifty-four thousandths of a millimetre in length, and from forty-one to fifty-three thousandths of a millimetre are taken up by its flagellum.
We might thus safely go down to a 6-millimetre bore, and increase the ammunition accordingly.
Rearmament of our Cavalry with a 6-millimetre carbine, ballistically equal in all respects to the rifle of the Infantry.
Our two 75-millimetre guns come up, and throw a few shells from a distance, with no result.
They were greeted on their passage by our two 75 millimetre guns, which had taken up a position on our left at the foot of the kopje.
If the frequency be a million per second the current at a depth of 1 millimetre is less than one six-millionth part of its surface value.
The eggs of the Twelve-spotted Mylabris are white, cylindrical, rounded at both ends and measure a millimetre and a half in length by half a millimetre in width.
In both species of Clythræ the eggs have the form of truncated ellipsoids, measuring about a millimetre in length.
The velvety matter, as and when obtained, is applied to the wall in a continuous felt at least a millimetre thick.
The young larva measures a millimetre and a half[2] in length.
The inner cylinder of scalariform tissue is perfectly continuous, not radiated, and about one millimetre in thickness.
Macrospores two-thirds to onemillimetre in diameter.
It is two millimetres long by half a millimetre wide.
I place on the surface of the honey five or six bits of straw a millimetre in length.
Each of these must receive in the space of a millimetre about ten thousand shocks, and be ten thousand times thrust out of its course.
Thus, below fifty to thirty millionths of a millimetre the properties of matter depend on its thickness.
A fine sand, such as would pass a 40 sieve but be retained on a 60 sieve, would be fairly represented by particles one-quarter of a millimetre in diameter.
Little by little, millimetre by millimetre my brush will move, and you will experience such pain as you have never experienced before.
Three were 75-millimetre and two 47-millimetre shells.
These masses display in their interior a radiate prismatic structure; but after drying they crumble into small fragments exhibiting the same minute prismatic structure, the miniature prisms being about a millimetre in diameter.
The fragments, whether of minerals or of volcanic rocks, are usually less than half a millimetre across.
It displays abundant small phenocrysts of olivine, all less than a millimetre in size (·2-·8 mm.
When plagioclase phenocrysts are present, they are very scanty and not generally over a millimetre in size, possessing rectangular clean outlines and showing but few inclusions.
The pyroxene phenocrysts are of pale-brown augite and are generally less than a millimetre in size.
The tests range up to a millimetre in size, and there are also inclosed a few large fragments, 1 to 2 centimetres in size, of shells and crystalline limestone.
The consumption of acetylene is about 75 litres per hour for each millimetre of thickness in the sheet treated, and the normal consumption of oxygen is 1.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "millimetre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
