millimètre

See also: millimetre, millimétré, milli-metre, and mil·límetre

English

Noun

millimètre (plural millimètres)

1. 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

• millimeter

French

Etymology

From milli- +‎ -mètre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.li.mɛtʁ/

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Noun

millimètre m (plural millimètres)

1. millimetre

Descendants

• → Persian: میلی‌متر (milimetr)

Further reading

• “millimètre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.