centimeter
one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. Abbreviations: cm, cm.
Origin of centimeter
1- Also especially British, cen·ti·me·tre .
Words Nearby centimeter
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How to use centimeter in a sentence
The nurses were all coming in because they would not believe how calm and relaxed I was, and the centimeters were just going up.
Marie Mongan, champion of hypnobirthing, dies at 86 | Olesia Plokhii | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostMoving at rates between 2 and 10 centimeters each year, some plates collide, some diverge and some grind past one another.
How the Earth-shaking theory of plate tectonics was born | Carolyn Gramling | January 13, 2021 | Science NewsA practical item with many different uses, this ruler offers both inches and centimeters and comes in a variety of sizes from 12″ to 36″ long.
The best rulers for home, office, and school | PopSci Commerce Team | January 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAs astonishing as it may seem, many experimental AR cloud concepts, even entirely mapped cities, are location specific down to the centimeter.
How a Software Map of the Entire Planet Could Change the World Forever | Aaron Frank | December 27, 2020 | Singularity HubIt seems when OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu’s surface, the collection head went 24 to 48 centimeters deep, which would explain how it recovered so much material.
OSIRIS-REx collected too much asteroid material and now some is floating away | Neel Patel | October 23, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
The daughter had also been exposed and was comatose before she and her mother each received A 250 cubic centimeter transfusion.
Infected Ebola Doctor Kent Brantly Is an Endangered Hero | Michael Daly | August 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe grew increasingly ill despite a 450 cubic centimeter transfusion and became comatose after five days.
Infected Ebola Doctor Kent Brantly Is an Endangered Hero | Michael Daly | August 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTrue, 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.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterOne barn is equal to 10-24 square centimeter, which is approximately the cross-sectional area of a typical atomic nucleus.
The Atomic Fingerprint | Bernard KeischWith 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.
Scientific definitions for 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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Cultural definitions for 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.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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