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Millimeters - equal to a thousandth of a meter.

Millimeters - equal to a thousandth of a meter.

Millimeters - equal to a thousandth of a meter.

Millimeters - equal to a thousandth of a meter.

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All lengths are measured in metres, however that leads to lot of numbers being either too big or too small to be practical. This is why we use prefixes. For instance measuring in millimetres is still measuring in metres, it just means that we're using a fraction of a metre. If something is three sixteenths of an inch the measurement is still in inches, or if you walk half a mile you are still counting miles, it's the same with metres, the prefix just shows the fraction or multiple of metres.

A pencil will be about 0.005 metres in radius, or five thousandths of a metre. To simplify this we use a prefix, the prefix for thousandths is milli-, so a pencil will have a radius of about 5 millimetres.

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Millimeters - equal to a thousandth of a meter.

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