Illustration: At a Japanese model-making workbench, a hobbyist adjusts a miniature train platform beside a metal ruler. The ruler has long centimeter ticks, each interval divided into ten equal smaller spaces, with no numerals. The gap between the platform edge and a tiny spacer spans exactly one small division.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ミリメートル

mirimeetoru

millimeter

Example sentences

  1. 板厚いたあつは2～3ミリメートル。

    The thickness is two to three millimeters.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 板厚いたあつは4～7ミリメートル。

    The thickness is four to seven millimeters.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. サイズは個々ここの卵たまごのおよその直径ちょっけいで1ミリメートル前後ぜんご、皮かわが固かたく、噛かむと粒つぶがはじける感触かんしょくを楽たのしめる。

    The size of each egg is 1 mm or so in diameter and the peel is so solid that chewing and bursting feelings are enjoyable.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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