Henle found they can travel one centimetre in three minutes.
This consists of a glass box about a centimetre in thickness.
The diameter of a chemical atom is of the order of 10−7 centimetre.
Metre and centimetre changed to mètre and centimètre for consistency; all other accentuation unchanged.
“A metre of green is greener than a centimetre of green,” said Gauguin; and this principle he applied to all his work.
Thus kilogramme means 1000 grammes, and centimetre means 1⁄100 of a metre.
I wave it away for a second, at the same time planting my straw as before, a straw sticking out nearly a centimetre.
The first Krupp anti-aircraft field-piece was a 6.5 centimetre (2 9/16 inch) arm.
You're one metre seventy-eight in your socks, and a centimetre more without them?
It was not until Thursday night, however, that the Germans brought their famous forty-two- centimetre guns into action.
centimeter cen·ti·me·ter (sěn'tə-mē'tər)
n.
Abbr. cm
A unit of length equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a meter.
centimeter A unit of length in the metric system equal to 0.01 meter. See Table at measurement. |
A unit of length in the metric system; one-hundredth of a meter, or about two-fifths of an inch.