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(MIL)thousand
Latin for thousand. A millennium is a thousand years; a millimeter is one one-thousandth of a meter.
prefixLatin
Number & quantitySpellings:millmilli
Example words
millimeter
one one-thousandth of a meter
millennium
a thousand years
million
a thousand thousands
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