centimeter
[sen-tuh-mee-ter]
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noun
one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. Abbreviation: cm, cm.
Also especially British, cen·ti·me·tre.
Origin of centimeter
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Contemporary Examples of centimeter
The daughter had also been exposed and was comatose before she and her mother each received A 250 cubic centimeter transfusion.
True, this wasn't an outpost set up by Israeli settlers to prevent a centimeter of retreat from the Whole Land.
Historical Examples of centimeter
This time he followed it as it changed to the five centimeter band.
The End of TimeWallace West
The sides of the cubes diminish from ten centimeters to one centimeter.
Dr. Montessori's Own HandbookMaria Montessori
The measures commonly used are the centimeter, meter and kilometer.
PhysicsWillis Eugene Tower
I will take as a unit the one-hundred-thousandth of a centimeter.
I take the thousandth of a centimeter and the hundred of that as a unit.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
centimeter
[sĕn′tə-mē′tər]
n.
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centimeter
[sĕn′tə-mē′tər]
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centimeter
[(sen-tuh-mee-tuhr)]
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