Micro (Greek letter μ, mu, non-italic) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one millionth (10−6). It comes from the Greek word (), meaning "small".
"Micro" is a metric system prefix that means one millionth of something, represented by the Greek letter μ. It matters because it allows scientists and engineers to conveniently express and work with very small measurements, from micrometers in biology to microseconds in computing.
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Micro (Greek letter μ, mu, non-italic) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one millionth (10−6). It comes from the Greek word (), meaning "small".
It is the only SI prefix which uses a character not from the Latin alphabet. In Unicode, the symbol is represented by or the legacy symbol . The prefix "mc" is also commonly used; for example, "mcg" denotes a microgram (whereas mg denotes a milligram).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).