Micron (redirected from µ)

micron: see micrometer.

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micron

One micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter or approximately 1/25,000 of an inch. The tiny elements that make up a transistor on a chip are measured in micrometers and nanometers. See process technology.

Magnified 800 Times

This is an 800x magnification of a few bits of RAM from an early Motorola microcontroller. Although the actual size of what you see in this picture would fit on a pinhead, the elements in the devices on this chip are several microns wide, which is quite large by today's standards.

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micron

a unit of length equal to 10^--6 metre. It is being replaced by the micrometre, the equivalent SI unit

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micron [′mī‚krän]

(mechanics)

A unit of pressure equal to the pressure exerted by a column of mercury 1 micrometer high, having a density of 13.5951 grams per cubic centimeter, under the standard acceleration of gravity; equal to 0.133322387415 pascal; it differs from the millitorr by less than one part in seven million. Also known as micrometer of mercury.

micrometer

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micron

A unit of length equal to a thousandth part of a millimeter or a millionth of a meter.

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1.		Micron - Micron Electronics, Inc.
2.		micron - micrometre

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Micron 

a fractional unit of length equal to 10^-6 m or 10^-3 mm. Its symbol is μ. The name “micron” was abolished by a resolution of the Thirteenth General Conference on Weights and Measures (1967); according to GOST (All-Union State Standard) 7663–55 and the rule for formation of the names of fractional units, it is to be called the micrometer (Russian mikrometr).