The word 'micrometer' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a precise measuring instrument used in science and engineering that can measure minute distances and objects. For example: "He adjusted the micrometer to measure the thickness of the sheet of metal accurately."
Boyden and his colleagues used the method to perform super-resolution imaging of a 10 million cubic micrometer chunk of tissue from the mouse hippocampus, stained with antibodies against three different neuronal proteins, using a standard confocal fluorescence microscope.
Out of curiosity, Babbage used a digital micrometer to compare the thickness of the metal chassis of his 12-year-old desktop with the innards of a two-year-old.
Using an improved micrometer of his own design, he made accurate measurements of the polar and equatorial diameters of the Sun.
The exact position of the index mark (showing the direction of the line of sight) between two of these graduations is measured on both sides of the circle with the aid of a vernier or a micrometer.
He also invented the micrometer microscope to measure the size of minute objects.
His micrometer made of rock crystal, announced in 1821, was used by the English astronomer William Rutter Dawes in measuring close double stars.
The logarithm writers at BMW did a fine job emulating the classic BMW steering feel; the turning response is instant and micrometer-precise, and the power assist fades nicely at speed to give the driver more connection with the road.
Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are Chinese, and in the first three months of 2013 levels of two atmospheric pollutants in Beijing – nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter between 2.5 and 10 micrometers in diameter, known as PM10 – were 30 per cent higher than at the same time last year.
In January, the Chinese capital saw levels of PM2.5 – particles below 2.5 micrometers in diameter – hit concentrations equivalent to those during the notorious peasouper fogs of 1950s London.
Ranging from mere nanometers to micrometers across, they exist in numerous mineralogical flavors.
The pollutants — nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter that is between 2.5 and 10 micrometers in diameter, called PM 10 — appeared to have surged sharply in January, showing levels 47 percent higher than the same month last year, according to the report by Beijing News that was translated into English by The Economic Observer.
