My daughters teacher asked what measurement makes up a millimeter.
2006-08-27 15:00:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
yes, a nanometer, a micrometer, etc are all smaller. basically the standard unit is meter and the prefixes are for various multiples of it.
you can see al lthe prefixes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#SI_prefixes
2006-08-27 15:03:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Picometer To Millimeter
2016-11-07 10:49:23 · answer #2 · answered by tschannen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the teacher was talking about micrometer. so the answer would be 1000 micrometer=1 millimeter. or you could also say that 1 millimeter= 1/10th of a centimeter. but I am sure the first answer is the one the teacher was looking for.
2006-08-27 17:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by ratel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the metric system uses the meter as the base unit, but then has a number of prefixes that indicate the power of ten you have to multiply by--that is, how many meters or what part of a meter you're talking about. The next smallest unit I'm aware of is a micrometer which is one thousandth of a millimeter.
2006-08-27 15:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by Opie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure.
The metric system for small stuff goes like this (from large to small):
meter, centimeter, millimeter, micrometer, nanometer, picometer, femtometer, attometer, zeptometer, and yoctometer.
You'll probably never see a reference to anything smaller than a femtometer (im not sure if anything smaller than a femtometer can even exist).
There are a thousand millimeters in a meter. There are a thousand micrometers in a millimeter. There are a thousand nanometers in a micrometer, and so on. The only one that breaks this pattern is centimeters - there are ten centimeters in a meter, and ten millimeters in a centimeter.
2006-08-27 15:03:07 · answer #5 · answered by extton 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
micrometer 1000 millimeters, also called micron
picometer 1000 micrometers
nanometer 1000 picometers
femptometer 1000 nanometers
these are the most common ones in electronics work, but there are others
2006-08-27 16:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by ronw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Nano, Mikro, ,.... etc
What measurement makes up a milimeter.
Layman answer : The fraction of 1/1000 in 1 Meter
Engineering Term : The fraction of 1/1000 speed of light traveling in a vacumn space
2006-08-27 15:41:50 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Logic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some measurements smaller than a milimeter
1 milimeter = 1000 micrometers, 1,000,000 nanometers, 10,000,000 angstroms, 1,000,000,000 picometers, 1,000,000,000,000 femtometers, etc. etc.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/si_prefix
2006-08-27 15:07:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 1,000 micrometers in a millimeter.
2006-08-27 15:03:40 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can measure a femtometer on a digital Dial indicator but what for is what want to know
2006-08-27 17:04:34 · answer #10 · answered by robecca_san 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋