centimetre

Meanings

• A unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a meter.

  - "He measured the distance between the two points to be exactly 15 centimetres."
  - "The length of a piece of paper is 21 centimetres."
  - "To convert 5 inches to centimetres, you need to multiply 5 by 2.54 (the number of centimetres in an inch). So, 5 inches is equal to 12.7 centimetres."

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Synonyms

cm , ㎝

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with centimetre
centimetre , meter , decimetre , kilometre , litre , gramme

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Variants

List of all variants of centimetre that leads to same result
centimeter , centimeters , centimeter-gram-second

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

The word 'centimetre' is derived from the Latin word 'centum' meaning 'hundred', and the Greek word 'metron' meaning 'measure'. Therefore, 'centimetre' literally means 'hundredth measure'.

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