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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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: metre
Part of: centimeter–gram–second system of units
Image: 1cm.svg

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conversion to standard unit: 0.010936
subdivision of this unit: millimetre
different from: cent
conversion to SI unit: 0.01
measured physical quantity: length
Unicode character: ㎝
unit symbol: cm
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent: wd:Q174728 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
short name: cm
NCI Thesaurus ID: C49668
P8168: Werner Stötzer
Commons category: Centimetre

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Equivalence to other units of length
Other uses
Unicode symbols
See also
References
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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.