CUBIC MEASURE 1000 cubic millimeters (mm3) = 1 cubic centimeter (cm3) NOTE. In the metric system of weights and measures, designations of multiples and subdivisions of any unit may be arrived at by combining with the name of the unit the prefixes, deka, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, and tera meaning respectively, 10, 100, 1 000, 1 000 000, and 1 000 000 000, and deci, centi, milli, micro, nano, and pico, meaning, respectively, one-tenth, one-hundredth, one-thousandth, one-millionth, one-billionth, and one-trillionth. In some of the foregoing metric tables, some such multiples and subdivisions have not been included for the reason that these have little, if any, currency in actual usage. A special case is found in the term "micron" (abbreviated as μ [the Greek letter mu]), a coined word meaning one-millionth of a meter (equivalent to one-thousandth of a millimeter); a millimicron (abbreviated as mμ) is one-thousandth of a micron (equivalent to one-millionth of a millimeter), and a micromicron (abbreviated as μμ) is one-millionth of a micron (equivalent to one-thousandth of a millimicron or to 0.000 000 001 millimeter.) |