How to Use micrometer in a Sentence

micrometer

noun

• There's a micrometer between the bar and the plates, right?
  — Men's Health, 11 July 2023
• The camera captures the shift in the material and measures the changes down to the micrometer.
  — Jackie Snow, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• Just as a song’s bass thumps in your chest at a concert, Mary’s lamb caused minute vibrations — just tenths of a micrometer — in the chip bag.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014
• These coalesced into droplets roughly one micrometer in size, or about the size of a speck of dust.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2022
• Tiny particles less than ten micrometers across can get into the lungs, and the smallest of them may enter the bloodstream.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The team start with tiny silica spheres with a diameter of about 3 micrometers, less than than the width of a human hair.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• Black eumelanosomes, meanwhile, are shaped like little narrow sausages and are about twice the size at one micrometer in length.
  — Jakob Vinther, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2015
• But a small range of infrared wavelengths, those between 8 and 13 micrometers, can pass through the atmosphere and out into space.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• Particles less than 10 micrometers include both fine and coarse dust particles that can pass through the nose and throat and get into your lungs.
  — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 8 June 2023
• Light that was ultraviolet gets stretched longer, so that the wavelength—about 1.5 to 2 micrometers—is now in the infrared, the part of the spectrum JWST is fine-tuned to measure.
  — Popular Science, 19 July 2023
• And the Real Clear Politics polling average gives Biden the kind of lead that can only be measured by a micrometer.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2020
• The wide-angle camera has an f/1.5 aperture and a 1.9 micrometer sensor (that’s big in camera sensor speak).
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2021
• It was fabricated on a 2 micrometer process, which meant that Acorn could boost the clock rate to 8 MHz without consuming any more power.
  — Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2022
• The tiny particles, measuring less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or roughly 4% the width of a strand of hair, are small enough to be breathed deep into the lungs and can enter the bloodstream.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2023
• These tiny particles, measuring less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter or roughly 4% of the width of a strand of hair, are small enough to be breathed deep into the lungs and can enter the bloodstream.
  — NBC News, 8 June 2023
• Each pixel measures a mere 7.5 micrometers in size—similar to the diameter of a human red blood cell.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2023
• These metallic orbs may be less than 100 micrometers or up to a few millimeters in diameter.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
• By contrast, the diaphragms of compression drivers found in horn speakers move only a few micrometers.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• But where the polarity of undulator fields alternates over a few centimeters, the laser’s field seesaws along with the wavelength of the light—just 1 micrometer.
  — Bykatie McCormick, science.org, 23 Mar. 2023
• To give you perspective, a human hair is 70 micrometers in diameter, which is 30 times larger than the largest fine particle!
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 8 June 2023
• For the small micrometer-sized champagne bubbles, only the beginning of the rupture is audible to humans, while for larger millimeter-sized bubbles, the whole burst can be heard.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2021
• Larger sensors collect more light, and Samsung is using 2.4 micrometer sensors in the main camera.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
• Then, the device pushes the electrons down a colonnade: two rows of several hundred silicon pillars, each just 2 micrometers tall, with an even smaller gap between the rows.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• All the interior panels are Formula 1–grade carbon fiber and the fit is micrometer precise.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2021
• For reference, the diameter of a human hair is about 70 micrometers.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Worse, wildfire smoke also contains even tinier bits called ultrafine particles, which have a diameter less than one-tenth of a micrometer.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• For comparison, the average strand of human hair is about 70 micrometers.
  — Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
• Here’s Why Ninety percent of particulate matter in wildfire smoke is made up of smaller particles, the ones 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter, or 50 times smaller than a grain of sand.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• Especially concerning is small particulate matter — tiny particles in the air that measure less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or roughly 4% of the width of a strand of hair.
  — NBC News, 8 June 2023
• Microplastics — particles that range from 1 micrometer to 5 milimeters in size — have been documented in bottled and tap water for several years.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024