cm
centimeter; centimeters.
cm
1 American
Or
cm
Cm
2
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
CM
3
American
c/m
4
American
c.m.
5
American
abbreviation
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church missionary.
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common meter.
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corresponding member.
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court-martial.
C.M.
6
American
abbreviation
Roman Catholic Church.
Cm
1
British
symbol
CM
2
British
abbreviation
cm
3
British
abbreviation
cm
4
British
symbol
cm
Scientific
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They then positioned the cup about 30 cm from their noses and left it there overnight.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Below 40 cm, or around 16 inches, freight shipping is typically suspended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The male palp alone can grow to around 5 cm, nearly four times longer than the front section of the body and almost as long as the spider's longest legs.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026
In the species Satyrex ferox, the largest in the group, individuals can reach a legspan of about 14 cm.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026
His party was mounted, the Lannisters cm foot save for Jaime him-self.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
In order for charge to be conserved overall, the nucleus must gain a positive charge, increasing its atomic number by 1, resulting in 241 Cm.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Tyrion waddled to the sideboard Cm a cop of wine.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Then from similarity Ct : Tt : : Cm : Mm but Tt : Mm : : Moon’s mass : Earth’s mass.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett
Law 2 may now be set down as under— Af + Bm Am + Bf Cf + Dm Cm + Df ------- ------- ------- ------- Dp Cp Bp Ap 3.
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
Iowa silent reading tests, new edition; advanced test manual of directions for forms Am, Bm, Cm and Dm.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Stars like CM Punk and Ray Fenix have complained loudly about the way the promotion handles wrestler health.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
CM: I also think that what we do is such an intimate thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Dodig joins the company after serving as president and CEO of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CM -0.48%decrease; red down pointing triangle , one of Canada’s biggest banks, from 2014 to 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
"Understanding heart regeneration on a molecular level is an important step towards developing innovative therapeutics that can facilitate CM regeneration," said the team in their lay summary.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
Since then CI is the refraction of the radius BC, and DI is parallel to CM, VC must be to CD as N to GC, according to what has been demonstrated in Article 31.
From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
June 6th.—The enemy opened a harassing fire on Battalion headquarters with 77 m.m. guns and 10.5 c.m. howitzers, firing with occasional short intervals until 3 p.m.
From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
The movement of an ordinary telephone diaphragm for a barely audible sound is, measured at the centre, about 10-6 of a c.m.
From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Marcus J. Martin
An illumination of 15 c.m. was established on one side and an illumination of 0 on the other side, in order to ascertain whether the mice would choose the brighter box.
From The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior by Robert M. Yerkes
She was armed with two 26 c.m. twenty-eight-ton Armstrong guns; six 15 c.m. five-ton Krupps; besides machine guns—a heavy armament for a ship of something under four thousand tons, I estimated.
From In the Yellow Sea by Henry Frith
The forehead is non receding and the breath measures 9 c.m.
From A New Hochelagan Burying-ground Discovered at Westmount on the Western Spur of Mount Royal, Montreal, July-September, 1898 by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
As early as 1753, someone known only by his initials, C.M., had proposed in the Scots Magazine that electricity could be used to send messages down a wire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
In addition to crime fiction, I’m devouring the just-published “Cooler Than Cool,” C.M.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
And that fruit ultimately wowed a man named C.M.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2023
For her titles in 1974 and 1976, before that marriage, she was listed as “Miss C.M. Evert.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
I daresay I shall find C.M. belongs to that class of girl, and if so, what am I going to do about her?
From Christina by L. G. Moberly
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