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Does 5000 kilometers equal 5 meters?
No, 5 kilometers equals 5000 meters (kilo is Greek for 1,000). 5000 millimeters equals 5 meters (milli is Latin for 1,000). Multiples of a meter are expressed in Greek and fractions of a meter are expressed in Latin.
What does the Latin root MILLI mean?
1000
The prefix for 0.001 is?
The prefix for 0.001 or 1/1000 is milli-, from the latin for 1000.
How is amperage and milliamperage related?
Milli implies it is 1000 times smaller. Decimals from latin normally imply smaller, greek larger (kilo=1000 times larger)
Latin roots in English of the word thousandth?
milli
If the prefix milli means one thousandth why is 1000 years called a millennium instead of a kilonium?
Mille is Latin for thousand. Annus is latin for year. Milleannus <-> Millenium, thus you have the translation equivalent to one thousand years. Kilo is Greek for thousand. The metric system uses Greek words for the first three increases in magnitude (deca, hecto, kilo), and Latin words for the first three decreases in magnitude (deci, centi, milli). Deci is the only word that legitimately means what we use it to describe - tenth; centi is hundred, while milli is thousand. Source: wikipedia
What does the word milli mean in millimeter?
"milli-" comes from the Latin noun "mīlle", meaning a thousand, or "mīlia" for the plural form (thousands)
How the decimal place-value positions are related to metric prefixes?
milli- = 0.001 centi = 0.01 deci- = 0.1 All these are from Latin. deka- = 10.0 hekta- = 100.0 kilo- = 1000.0 These are from Greek.
Is flex greek or latin?
Flex a greek or latin
What is the Greek fractional prefix meaning one 1 thousandth?
milli
Miss greek root or latin root?
re is greek and latin
Where did the word geology come from?
greek and latin greek and latin
