The word "millimeter" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a meter. You can use it when referring to measurements that are extremely small. For example: The particles were so small that we had to measure them in millimeters.
The panels are still bonded thermally, but the panel surfaces, even though they're made of relatively grippy plastic, received some texture in the form of 0.1 millimeter dots and dashes.
Does it even make sense to say they occurred at a point one millimeter away from Brutus's hypothalamus?
Millimetre (mm), also spelled millimeter, unit of length equal to 0.001 metre in the metric system and the equivalent of 0.03937 inch.
You got a fraction of a millimeter taller, for one thing.
Essentially, you start by designing a 3-D model using computer software, which then virtually "slices" that model into very thin wafers (about a millimeter), and directs the printer to build each layer, in a way similar to how a regular printer layers ink on paper.
Your hair grew a fraction of a millimeter longer.
For "Osedax" (2010), made with her partner, Edgar Cleijne, visitors crouch to enter a black-box theater and settle in to view two simultaneous projections: one of glass slides hand-painted with watery abstractions, the other a 16-millimeter film incorporating footage of a shipwreck off Rhode Island.
China has its share of violence by the mentally disturbed, but none of the perpetrators have ready access to nine-millimeter Glocks.
Infrared light and its more penetrating, lower frequency neighbor, sub-millimeter light, let them peer into the thick, gassy stew of the nebula to spot baby planets in an embryonic state.
Three prototypes of the gun, all nine-millimeter calibre, lay on the table.
Often, this results in phone calls from officials: "How did you find out about that?" (Brown's style is heavy on weaponspeak: "Kelly's F-16 had two 370-gallon drop tanks on board, along with four aim-120 amraam radar-guided missiles, two aim-9L 'Sidewinder' heat-seeking missiles, and ammunition for the twenty-millimeter cannon").
