centimeter
[sen-tuh-mee-ter]
- one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. Abbreviation: cm, cm.
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Also especially British, cen·ti·me·tre.
Origin of centimeter
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Examples from the Web for centimeter
Contemporary Examples
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
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.
Word Origin and History for centimeter
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
centimeter
(sĕn′tə-mē′tər)- A unit of length equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a meter.
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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centimeter
[sĕn′tə-mē′tər]
- A unit of length in the metric system equal to 0.01 meter. See Table at measurement.
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The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
centimeter
[(sen-tuh-mee-tuhr)]
A unit of length in the metric system; one-hundredth of a meter, or about two-fifths of an inch.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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