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How many inches in 1 micrometer? The answer is 3.9370078740157E-5. We assume you are converting between inch and micrometre. You can view more details on each measurement unit: inches or micrometer The SI base unit for length is the metre. 1 metre is equal to 39.370078740157 inches, or 1000000 micrometer. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Use this page to learn how to convert between inches and micrometres. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units!
1 inches to micrometer = 25400 micrometer
2 inches to micrometer = 50800 micrometer
3 inches to micrometer = 76200 micrometer
4 inches to micrometer = 101600 micrometer
5 inches to micrometer = 127000 micrometer
6 inches to micrometer = 152400 micrometer
7 inches to micrometer = 177800 micrometer
8 inches to micrometer = 203200 micrometer
9 inches to micrometer = 228600 micrometer
10 inches to micrometer = 254000 micrometer
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An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot. The inch is usually the universal unit of measurement in the United States, and is widely used in the United Kingdom, and Canada, despite the introduction of metric to the latter two in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively. The inch is still commonly used informally, although somewhat less, in other Commonwealth nations such as Australia; an example being the long standing tradition of measuring the height of newborn children in inches rather than centimetres. The international inch is defined to be equal to 25.4 millimeters.
A micrometre (American spelling: micrometer, symbol µm) is an SI unit of length equal to one millionth of a metre, or about a tenth of the size of a droplet of mist or fog. It is also commonly known as a micron, although that term is officially outdated. It can be written in the expanded mathmatical notation (1×10-6 m)
The symbol µ is the "micro sign", which should look identical to the Greek letter mu (?) (the two may or may not look the same, depending on the font). The symbol "um" is sometimes used, when the µ and ? are not available, for example when using a typewriter.
The micrometre is a common unit of measurement for wavelengths of infrared radiation. Some people (especially in astronomy and the semiconductor business) use the old name micron and/or the solitary symbol µ (both of which were official between 1879 and 1967) to denote a micrometre. This practice persists in the face of official discouragement, perhaps to help disambiguate between the unit of measurement and the micrometer, a measuring device.
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