Definition of "centimetre" [centimetre]

• An SI unit of length equal to 10−2 metres. (noun)

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• "A weight of 160 grams on a square centimetre is enough to do that."
• "The exercise consists in throwing the blocks, which are pink in colour, down upon a green carpet, and then building them up into a little tower, placing the largest cube as the base, and then placing the others in order of size until the little cube of one centimetre is placed at the top."
• "The greatest wave-length he has thus found is one-thousandth of a centimetre, which is seventeen times that of sodium light—the corresponding period being about thirty million million per second."