centimetre
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A centimetre is a unit of measurement equal to one-hundredth of a metre, making it useful for measuring medium-sized objects and distances in everyday life. It sits between larger measurements like metres and smaller ones like millimetres on the scale of length measurement.
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thumb|upright=1.35|Different lengths as in respect to the electromagnetic spectrum, measured by the metre and its derived scales. The [[microwave is in-between 1 metre to 1 millimetre.]]
A centimetre (International spelling) or centimeter (American English), with SI symbol cm, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi- being the SI prefix for a factor of . Equivalently, there are 100 centimetres in 1 metre. The centimetre was the base unit of length in the now deprecated centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units.