noun An element meaning ‘thousand,’ also used for ‘a thousandth part,’ especially in words relating to physics: as, millimeter (the thousandth part of a meter).
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An FSH level above 30 (in units called milli-international units per milliliter), as measured in a blood test on any of the first six days of a woman's period, is the most reliable indication that she is in perimenopause.
By comparison, TEPCO says some of the workers at Fukushima-1 have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts note that milli is 1000 times micro.
The mathematical formulas and algorithms put in place by banks to monetize every millisecond milli-transaction and squeeze profits out of them and our ever-increasing interconnectedness mean that a small unforeseen event now ripples around the world faster than the next banker has the time to take out his Blackberry and check the markets.
The mathematical formulas and algorithms put in place by banks to monetize every millisecond milli-transaction and squeeze profits out of them and our ever-increasing interconnectedness mean that a small unforeseen event now ripples around the world faster than the next banker has the time to take out his Blackberry and check the markets.
The mathematical formulas and algorithms put in place by banks to monetize every millisecond milli-transaction and squeeze profits out of them and our ever-increasing interconnectedness mean that a small unforeseen event now ripples around the world faster than the next banker has the time to take out his Blackberry and check the markets.
By comparison, TEPCO says some of the workers at Fukushima-1 have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts note that milli is 1000 times micro.
The rapid movement of capital in and out of markets has taken this kind of short term thinking to an extreme, like stock trades where the assets are literally held for milli-seconds.
By comparison, TEPCO says some of the workers at Fukushima-1 have already been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts note that milli is 1000 times micro.
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