millimetric, a.
(mɪlɪˈmɛtrɪk)
[f. millimetre + -ic.]
a. fig. Minute.
| 1909 Milton Memorial Lect. 194 Those millimetric distinctions by which human character declines or ascends. 1937 E. Pound Let. 30 Nov. (1971) 300 As I haven't yet a projector, the small but not millimetric photos would save time. 1965 Economist 28 Aug. 772/2 Participation in the congress and the administrative bureaucracy is to be shared with ‘millimetric’ equality. |
b. Of the order of a millimetre in length; employing or characterized by electromagnetic waves of this wavelength.
| 1962 Newnes Conc. Encycl. Electr. Engin. 883/2 The use of waveguides of practicable size is restricted to waves in the microwave region (i.e. centimetric and millimetric wavelengths). 1969 A. L. Cullen in F. A. Benson Millimetre & Submillimetre Waves i. 5 For many puposes..microwave radar was found to possess advantages over millimetric radar. 1973 Physics Bull. Feb. 99/2 The properties measured include..the absorption of millimetric microwaves. Ibid. Nov. 651/2 These direct measurements initially suggested that the millimetric background temperature was much more than 2·7 K. |