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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A millimeter: the third metret or decimal submultiple of a meter in the scheme of magnitudes devised (about 1860) by G. J. Stoney, F. R. S. The decim or decimeter is the first metret, the centim the second. See
metro andmetret .
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Such a cell, having half a square meter of surface, can store up enough electricity to keep a platinum wire 1 millim. in diameter and 8 centims. long, red-hot for ten minutes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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Romæ, tipografia della pace_, 1880, 8vo, 152 pp. The citations are from this last edition, which I collated at Assisi with the most important of the rare manuscripts at present known: Archives of Sacro Convento, MS. 686, on parchment of the end of the thirteenth century, if I do not mistake, 130 millim. by 142; 102 numbered pages.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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Laplace had deposited with the Board of Longitude shortly before his death, found that the portion of the horary oscillations of the pressure of the atmosphere, which depends on the attraction of the moon, can not raise the mercury in the barometer at Paris more than the 0.018 of a millimeter, while eleven years 'observations at the same place show the mean barometric oscillation, from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M., to be 0.756 millim., and from 3 P.M. to
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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