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Princeton's WordNet

  1. centimeter, centimetre, cmnoun

    a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter

Wikipedia

  1. Centimetre

    A centimetre (international spelling) or centimeter (American spelling) (SI symbol cm) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of 1/100. The centimetre was the base unit of length in the now deprecated centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units. Though for many physical quantities, SI prefixes for factors of 103—like milli- and kilo-—are often preferred by technicians, the centimetre remains a practical unit of length for many everyday measurements. A centimetre is approximately the width of the fingernail of an average adult person.

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  1. centimetre

    A centimetre is a unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to one hundredth of a meter. It is commonly used in everyday measurements for objects that are not too big or too small. The abbreviation for centimetre is cm.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Centimetrenoun

    the hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter

  2. Etymology: [F. centimtre; centi- (L. centum) + mtre. See Meter.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Centimetre

    sen′ti-mē-tr, n. a lineal measure, the hundredth part of a metre—0.3937 inches. [Fr.,—L. centum, a hundred, metrum, Gr. metron, a measure.]

Anagrams for centimetre »

  1. recitement

  2. centimeter

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of centimetre in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of centimetre in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of centimetre in a Sentence

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    For decades radio interferometry has been done at centimetre wavelengths using telescopes spread across continents, however, if you do the same observations at millimetre wavelengths then you canproduce images with better resolution, and see (in silhouette) the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

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