MILLIM'ETER, noun [Latin mille, a thousand, and metrum, a measure.]
A French lineal measure containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to.03937 decimals of an inch. It is the least measure of length.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.