How to Use micrometer in a Sentence

micrometer

noun
  • Most cells cannot take in solid objects larger than about one micrometer.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Then tiny balls of solder, some only tens of micrometers across, are attached to the chips.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
  • One micrometer is about 1/70th the width of a human hair.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The joining pads must be precisely aligned to within less than a micrometer for the process to work.
    — Alex Music, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026
  • Each has been thinned down to tens of micrometers and is shot through with vertical connections.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And each is only 100 micrometers thick, around the thickness of a strand of hair.
    — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Yet much of the fab’s work will be linking these chips together with micrometer precision.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Imec managed only a 2-micrometer pitch for chip-on-wafer bonding.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Hyphae are often barely five micrometers wide — about one-tenth the width of a human hair and much narrower than a plant’s root tip.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The structure was only 20 micrometers tall, which is roughly the size of a single human cell.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Our diamonds are a polycrystalline coating no more than a couple of micrometers thick.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In a frontside design, the silicon substrate can be as thick as 750 micrometers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Anything smaller than 1 micrometer is a nanoplastic that must be measured in billionths of a meter.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • These metallic orbs may be less than 100 micrometers or up to a few millimeters in diameter.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The panels do this by emitting heat at infrared wavelengths between 8 and 13 micrometers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2017
  • One of the many challenges is how to attach an optical fiber to a waveguide on a photonic chip with micrometer accuracy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The resulting flexible mesh electronics are less than one micrometer thick.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2025
  • Imaging tools detected particles as small as four micrometers.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The combination of the ridge and light drove excitons in one direction for four micrometers in less than half a nanosecond at room temperature.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The two types of chips are linked by thousands of micrometer-scale copper interconnects built into the interposer’s surface.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2026

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