centimeter

The fastest of them would not probably penetrate one centimetre in soft tissues.

Henle found they can travel one centimetre in three minutes.

I wave it away for a second, at the same time planting my straw as before, a straw sticking out nearly a centimetre.

Thus kilogramme means 1000 grammes, and centimetre means 1⁄100 of a metre.

The effect upon weight was more striking than upon height, as the average failure in height was one 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?

Now every centimetre contains the bacteria washed out from 0.1 gramme of the original food.

They are supported by a slender pedicel, somewhat inflated at the top, the length of which does not exceed one centimetre.

The unit of work is that which is required to overcome a resistance of a dyne over a centimetre, and is called an Erg.