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  2. Micro- - Wikipedia

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    The official symbol for the SI prefix micro is a Greek lowercase mu (μ). [7] For reasons stemming from its design, Unicode has two different character codes for the letter, with slightly different appearance in some fonts, although most fonts use the same glyph.

  3. Micrometre - Wikipedia

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    The micrometre (Commonwealth English as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; [1] SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American English), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron, [2] is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equalling 1 × 10 −6 metre (SI standard prefix "micro-" = 10 −6); that is, one millionth of a metre (or one thousandth of a ...

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script .

  5. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    Symbol Factor Power tera T 1 000 000 000 000: 10 12: ... micro μ 0.000 001: 10 −6: nano n 0.000 000 001: 10 −9: ... there are 12 inches in a foot, but the number ...

  6. Names of small numbers - Wikipedia

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    The following table lists the names of small numbers used in the long and short scales, along with the power of 10, engineering notation, and International System of Units (SI) symbols and prefixes. [1] [page needed] [2] [page needed] [3] [page needed] [4] [5] [6] [7]

  7. Micrometer (device) - Wikipedia

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    If the gauge block is known to be 0.75000 ± 0.00005 inch ("seven-fifty plus or minus fifty millionths", that is, "seven hundred fifty thou plus or minus half a tenth"), then the micrometer should measure it as 0.7500 inch. If the micrometer measures 0.7503 inch, then it is out of calibration.

  8. Unit prefix - Wikipedia

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    micro μ 0.000 001: 10 −6: nano n 0.000 000 001: 10 −9: pico p 0.000 000 000 001: 10 −12: ... Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to the unit ...

  9. Mu (letter) - Wikipedia

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    The lower-case mu (as "micro sign") appeared at 0xB5 in the 8-bit ISO-8859-1 encoding, from which Unicode and many other encodings inherited it. It was also at 0xE6 in the popular CP437 on the IBM PC. Unicode has declared that a "real" mu is different than the micro sign. [11] U+00B5 µ MICRO SIGN (µ) U+039C Μ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER MU (Μ)