10 mil to mm (10 mils to millimeters)

On this page we will define 10 mil to mm, make a formula to convert 10 mil to mm, show you the math and the answer to 10 mil to mm, and illustrate 10 mil to mm on a tape measure.

A mil means a thousandth of an inch (1/1000), also known as thou, and mm is short for millimeter. Therefore, when we want to convert 10 mil to mm, we want to convert 10 thousandths of an inch to millimeters.

Note that technically, the plural of mil is mils, so it should be 10 mils to mm, however, we use 10 mil on this page, because that seems to be a more popular way of describing any number of thousandths of an inch.

Like we said above, one mil is a thousandth of an inch. Furthermore, there are 25.4 millimeters per inch. Therefore, one mil would be 25.4/1000 mm, which means that we can make the following mil to mm formula:

mil × 0.0254 = mm

Now that we have the mil to mm formula, we can convert 10 mil to mm (10 thousandths of an inch to millimeters) like this:

mil × 0.0254 = mm 10 × 0.0254 = 0.254 10 mil = 0.254 mm

To get a better perspective of 10 mil to mm, we also marked 10 mil on our tape measure. The top of the tape measure shows inches and the bottom shows centimeters.

Our illustration shows exactly where 10 mil is on our tape measure. 10 mil to mm is marked with a blue line and a blue dot.

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