They mean: centi as in centimeter is 1/100 of a meter and milli as in millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter
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A million
55 milli meters
One thousandth of
"milli-" comes from the Latin noun "mīlle", meaning a thousand, or "mīlia" for the plural form (thousands)
0.001 or 1/1000 of a second
Milli = a thousandth.
Milli means 1000 I think! lol
They mean: centi as in centimeter is 1/100 of a meter and milli as in millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter
A million
1000
One thousandth of
55 milli meters
Millennium
"milli-" comes from the Latin noun "mīlle", meaning a thousand, or "mīlia" for the plural form (thousands)
0.001 or 1/1000 of a second
The root milli means thousandThe word million makes us think the root milli means million but it actually means a thousand because there is a thousand thousands in a million
The prefix "milli-" means one thousandth or 0.001. It is commonly used in the International System of Units (SI) to denote subunits of a base unit, for example, a millimeter is one thousandth of a meter.