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单词 mikrom
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mikromn.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English mikron , micron n.
Etymology: Alteration of mikron, early variant of micron n., after the initial letter of metre n.2 (see quot. 1898). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (məi·krǫm) /ˈmaɪkrɒm/.
Obsolete. rare.
= micron n.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > metre > the millionth part of a metre
micron1879
micrometre1880
mu1888
mikrom1898
1898 Ld. Kelvin in Nature 17 Nov. 57/1 Langley, fourteen years ago, used..the word ‘mikron’ to denote the millionth of a metre. The letter n has no place in the metrical system, and I venture to suggest a change of spelling to ‘mikrom’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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