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MICRON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("micron" is a kind of...):
metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)
Meronyms (parts of "micron"):
micromillimeter; micromillimetre; millimicron; nanometer; nanometre; nm (a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter)
Holonyms ("micron" is a part of...):
millimeter; millimetre; mm (a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter)
Context examples:
A tooth restorative material that contains both microfill composites and macrofill composites, and contains a range of particle sizes between .6 and 1 micron in diameter.
(Hybrid Composite, NCI Thesaurus)
Nuclei bizarre and multilobated, 20 microns or greater, nucleoli prominent, chromatin clumped.
(Fuhrman Grade 4, NCI Thesaurus)
To do this, they exposed human lung tissue to particulate matter smaller than 10 microns (10 μm), which is commonly emitted as a result of these fires and can reach the lung alveoli.
(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)
Infrared light at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.5 microns are rendered in blue and green, showing the distribution of stars, while dust features that glow brightly at 8.0 microns are shown in red.
(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)
Nuclei round, uniform, approximately 10 microns; nucleoli inconspicuous or absent
(Fuhrman Grade 1, NCI Thesaurus)
Deep-sea sediment in which more than 25% of the fraction coarser than 5 microns is of terrigenous, volcanogenic, and/or neritic origin.
(Hemipelagic sediments, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Organic molecules made of carbon and hydrogen, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), are excited by interstellar radiation and become luminescent at wavelengths near 8.0 microns, giving the nebula its reddish features.
('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)
The processing techniques, such as deposition, etching, and patterning, that are utilized to produce miniaturized structures and devices with feature sizes and resolution in the micron domain.
(Microfabrication, NCI Thesaurus)
More specifically, allogeneic CD4+ memory Th1-like T cells/microparticle-bound anti-CD3/anti-CD28 are composed of a proprietary preparation of mismatched, allogeneic differentiated CD4+ memory Th1-like T cells bound to paramagnetic, epoxy-covered 4.5 micron microparticles with covalently bound anti-CD3/anti-CD28 monoclonal antibodies at a 2:1 bead:cell ratio.
(Allogeneic CD4+ Memory Th1-like T Cells/Microparticle-bound Anti-CD3/anti-CD28, NCI Thesaurus)
Microcysts are small (typically 10-50 microns in diameter), clear, irregularly shaped high refractive inclusions that form in the basal layers of the epithelium and move towards the anterior surface of the cornea, surrounding epithelial haze.
(Microcystic Corneal Edema, NCI Thesaurus)
