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centimeter
[ sen-tuh-mee-ter ]
noun
- one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. : cm, cm.
centimeter
/ sĕn′tə-mē′tər /
- A unit of length in the metric system equal to 0.01 meter.
- See Table at measurement
centimeter
- 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
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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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