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centimeter

[ sen-tuh-mee-ter ]

noun

  1. one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. : cm, cm.


centimeter

/ sĕntə-mē′tər /

  1. A unit of length in the metric system equal to 0.01 meter.
  2. See Table at measurement


centimeter

  1. A unit of length in the metric system ; one-hundredth of a meter , or about two-fifths of an inch.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of centimeter1

From the French word centimètre, dating back to 1795–1805. See centi-, meter 1

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Example Sentences

The daughter had also been exposed and was comatose before she and her mother each received A 250 cubic centimeter transfusion.

She grew increasingly ill despite a 450 cubic centimeter transfusion and became comatose after five days.

True, this wasn't an outpost set up by Israeli settlers to prevent a centimeter of retreat from the Whole Land.

So small and so numerous are these corpuscles that over five million are found in a cubic centimeter of normal blood.

One barn is equal to 10-24 square centimeter, which is approximately the cross-sectional area of a typical atomic nucleus.

With the highest known magnifying power we could distinguish the forty-thousandth part of a centimeter.

As the angle of the wedge is about one tenth, the intervals between these divisions are about one centimeter.

Having done this, bring the goblet to within about a centimeter of the pipe stem.

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