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noun
one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. Abbreviation: cm
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Centimeter
is always a great word to know.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- Self examination alerted me to a two centimeter sized lump two months ago.
- The rice in my bowl mesures over a centimeter, the rice in my neighbor's bowl mesures about a third of a centimeter.
- But it is tiny, being the size of a credit card and about a centimeter thick.
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Word Origin & History
centimeter
1801, from Fr., coined from L. centum "hundred" (see hundred) + Fr. metre.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
centimeter cen·ti·me·ter (sěn'tə-mē'tər)
n.
Abbr. cm
A unit of length equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a meter.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
centimeter  (sěn'tə-mē'tər) Pronunciation Key
A unit of length in the metric system equal to 0.01 meter. See Table at measurement. |
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
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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