noun

• A unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter; a micrometer.

  ‘Plastic shopping bags are currently about 15 microns thick (a micron is a thousandth of a millimetre).’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Nanowires are crystals only a few nanometers in diameter but up to several microns in length.’
  • ‘While microscopic, the particles are large enough to be measured in microns, or millionths of a meter.’
  • ‘Each ring - composed of polymer chains abandoned as the solvent receded - is several nanometers high and several microns wide.’
  • ‘They used computers to design the complex branching of the veins and arteries that ranged from 10 microns to 3 millimetres wide.’
  • ‘Banning carry bags less than 20 microns or five microns doesn't quite matter because these bags are recyclable.’
  • ‘There's a thousand microns in a millimetre for reference there.’
  • ‘Most fluid inclusions are small, only a few microns to tens of microns in diameter, but large inclusions visible to the naked eye are known.’
  • ‘The bubbles then expand to a much larger size, about 6,000 microns, or millionths of a meter - large enough to be seen with the unaided eye.’
  • ‘The tip has a microporosity of less than or equal to 0.22 microns.’
  • ‘The reactors range in diameter from about 400 to 60 microns, or millionths of a meter.’
  • ‘One micron is 1 millionth of a meter, and chips with narrower gaps between transistors can perform more functions faster.’
  • ‘Their lengths vary greatly in a population, with the most common length being about a micron.’
  • ‘A nanometer is one-thousandth of a micron, which is one millionth of a meter.’
  • ‘To make fibers up to tens of microns across, scientists must align hundreds of the nanotubes into bundles.’
  • ‘Primary fuel filters, once designed to remove 150-micron particles, are now rated for 10 microns.’
  • ‘The price differential between broader micron wools, used for carpets, and the finer microns, used for luxury clothing, is returning to normal.’
  • ‘At present, inkjet nozzles can achieve resolutions of about 25 microns, compared to the latest die size of 0.13 microns, using silicon.’
  • ‘The human eye can only see objects as small as about 40 microns, but most oil contaminants are about 5 microns.’
  • ‘Most of these creatures are quite small; from less than a micron in diameter to a few centimeters.’