centimetre

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cm centimeter see length reference foot pace inch distribute cubit text topsoil curium millimetre nanometre
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Hypernyms

metric linear unit

Phrases with the word

centimetre band centimetre of water

Anagrams

centimeter recitement remittence

Examples

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up. Timothy Garton Ash

One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments. Aldous Huxley

Air, for example, tends to arc across small gaps at electric field strengths which exceed 30 kV per centimetre. Source: Internet

For aquatinting a printmaker will often use a test strip of metal about a centimetre to three centimetres wide. Source: Internet

However, some modern building codes require that the millimetre be used in preference to the centimetre, because "use of centimetres leads to extensive usage of decimal points and confusion". Source: Internet

Centimetre-gram-second systems The centimetre gram second system of units (CGS) was the first coherent metric system, having been developed in the 1860s and promoted by Maxwell and Thomson. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

centimeter of water centimeter-gram-second centimeter-gramme-second centimetre band centimetre of water centimetre-gram-second