mm
part of speech
abbreviation (mm); interjection (mm, mmm)
meaning for a pupil
1) Mm is the short way to write millimetre, a very tiny unit of length. A centimetre has 10 millimetres. tree →
2) «Mm» or «mmm» is also a sound people make to say yes, to think, or to say food is tasty. tree →
sense in the lessons
a unit of length for small things: pencil leads, rain, insects, lines on a ruler; in science rainfall and small parts are measured in mm; in stories «Mmm!» shows something tastes good
examples
- The line is 45 mm long. tree →
- It rained 12 mm today. tree →
- A coin is 2 mm thick. tree →
- How many mm are in 3 cm? tree →
- The ant is about 5 mm long. tree →
- The small marks on a ruler are millimetres. tree →
- "Mmm, this soup is yummy!" said Ella. tree →
- "Mm-hm," said Dad, nodding. tree →
note
Read «mm» as «millimetres»; it names the unit of the number before it. 10 mm = 1 cm, 1000 mm = 1 m. Trap: change units before adding mm to cm; mm is not m (metres).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mm» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.