centimeter

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.