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    10 months ago

    Standing alone ‘m’ is metre.

    With a decimal modifier ahead of it, ‘m’ is metre

    Immediately before a symbol it is milli (one thousandth)

    mm - the first m is before the metre symbol, it is the milli multiplier, the second m is after a multiplier, so it is the symbol for metre

    mHz - the m is before the symbol Hz (for Hertz) so it is the milli multiplier

    km - the m is after the K (kilo, thousand times) multiplier, so it is metre

    You probably spell metre ‘meter’, but a meter is a whole different word in English