centimetre

Also known as centimetres, cm

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.]]

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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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Key facts

Unit.name: centimetre
Unit.image: frameless
Unit.caption: A carpenter's ruler with centimetre divisions
Unit.symbol: cm
Unit.standard: SI
Unit.quantity: length
Unit.units1: millimetres
Unit.inunits1: 10 mm
Unit.units2: imperial & US system
Unit.inunits2: ~

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Equivalence to other units of length
Other uses
Unicode symbols
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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “centimetre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.