Noun
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 dictionaryEvery 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