CENTIMETRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centimetre mean? 

• CENTIMETRE (noun)
  The noun CENTIMETRE has 1 sense:

1. a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter

  Familiarity information: CENTIMETRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTIMETRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

centimeter; centimetre; cm

Hypernyms ("centimetre" is a kind of...):

metric linear unit (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)

Meronyms (parts of "centimetre"):

millimeter; millimetre; mm (a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter)

Holonyms ("centimetre" is a part of...):

decimeter; decimetre; dm (a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter)

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

The single fossilized bone fragment, about two centimetres (less than an inch) long, which researchers said was from a girl at least 13 years old, was found in 2012 in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.

(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)

One gauss represents a magnetic flux of one maxwell per square centimetre of cross-section perpendicular to the field.

(Gauss, NCI Thesaurus)

Cosmic dust is mainly composed of silicon, carbon and aluminium, in grains as small as a millionth of a centimetre across.

(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)

A field of one gauss exerts a force on a conductor, placed in the field of 0.1 dyne per ampere of current per centimetre of conductor.

(Gauss, NCI Thesaurus)