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A metre is the basic SI unit for length and distance. It is roughly equal to three and a third imperial feet. The prefixes indicate a varying order of magnitude of a metre; * centi- = one-hundredth; the width of an adult's pinky finger. * milli- = one-thousandth (one-tenth of centi-); about the thickness of 10 sheets of paper. * micro- = one-millionth (one-thousandth of a one-thousandth); human red blood cells are 6-8 micrometres wide. * nano- = one-billionth (one-thousandth of a one-millionth or vice versa); DNA is 2 nanometres wide.

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Q: What are the size differences between a meter centimeter millimeter micrometer and a nanometer?
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What are all the proper units of length in the metric system?

kilometer, meter, decimeter, centimeter, millimeter, micrometer, nanometer, angstrom


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What unit of measure is smaller than a millimeter?

Unit of measurement 1000 times less than the millimeter is the micrometer. Unit of measurement 1,000,000 times less than the millimeter is the nanometer.


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