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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F.

millimètre

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milli-

milli- +

mètre

. See 3d

A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d

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

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.