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English
Noun
millimètre (plural millimètres)
- Rare spelling of millimetre.
1874, Half-yearly Compendium of Medical Science, XIII-XIV, page 240:The patient was a little girl, who, after juxta-epiphysary osteitis of the tibia, presented, with an anchylosed knee, a shortening of 24 millimètres. An application of Vienna paste, and afterwards Canquoin’s was made over the front of the tibia; three months afterwards the shortening was only 11 millimètres.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From milli- + -mètre.
Pronunciation
Noun
millimètre m (plural millimètres)
- millimetre
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