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Centimetre

{

Cen′ti-meˊter

,

Cen′ti-meˊtre

}

,

Noun.

[F.

centimètre

;

centi-

(L.

centum

) +

mètre

. See

.]

The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See

.

Definition 2024

centimetre

centimetre

See also: centímetre, centimètre, and centi-metre

English

Alternative forms

(US) centimeter

Noun

centimetre ‎(plural centimetres)

(Britain, Canada) (metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻² metres.

Synonyms

cm, ㎝

Derived terms

Translations

one-hundredth of a metre

Arabic: سِنْتِمِيتْر m ‎(sintimitr)
Moroccan Arabic: سنتيم m ‎(santīm)
Armenian: սանտիմետր (hy) ‎(santimetr)
Asturian: centímetru (ast) m
Azeri: santimetr
Belarusian: сантыме́тр m ‎(santymjétr)
Bulgarian: сантиме́тър (bg) m ‎(santimétǎr)
Catalan: centímetre m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 釐米, 厘米 ‎(lei⁴ mai⁵), 公分 ‎(gung¹ fan¹)

Hakka: 公分 ‎(kûng-fûn)

Mandarin: 釐米, 厘米 (zh) ‎(límǐ), 公分 (zh) ‎(gōngfēn)

Min Nan: 公分 (zh-min-nan) ‎(kong-hun)
Czech: centimetr (cs) m
Danish: centimeter (da) c
Dutch: centimeter (nl)
Esperanto: centimetro
Faroese: sentimetur m
Finnish: senttimetri (fi)
French: centimètre (fr) m
Galician: centímetro (gl) m
Georgian: სანტიმეტრი ‎(sanṭimeṭri)
German: Zentimeter (de) m
Greek: εκατοστόμετρο (el) ‎(ekatostómetro), εκατοστό (el) n ‎(ekatostó)
Hebrew: סנטימטר (he) m ‎(sant'imet'er)
Hindi: सेंटीमीटर m ‎(sēṇṭīmīṭar)
Hungarian: centiméter (hu)
Ido: centimetro (io)
Indonesian: sentimeter (id)

Interlingua: centimetro
Irish: ceintiméadar m
Italian: centimetro (it) m
Japanese: センチメートル (ja) ‎(senchimētoru), センチ (ja) ‎(senchi)
Korean: 센티미터 (ko) ‎(sentimiteo), 센티 ‎(senti), 센치 (ko) ‎(senchi)
Lojban: (lujvo) centre
Macedonian: сантиме́тар m ‎(santimétar)
Malay: sentimeter
Norwegian:

Bokmål: centimeter (no) m

Nynorsk: centimeter m
Persian: سانتی‌متر
Polish: centymetr (pl) m
Portuguese: centímetro (pt) m
Romanian: centimetru (ro)
Russian: сантиме́тр (ru) m ‎(santimétr)
Serbo-Croatian: центиметар m, centimetar (sh) m
Slovak: centimeter m
Slovene: centimeter m
Spanish: centímetro (es) m
Swahili: sentimita (sw)
Swedish: centimeter (sv) c
Tagalog: kadanpanukat, sentimetro, kadanmetro
Telugu: సెంటీమీటరు ‎(seṃṭīmīṭaru)
Thai: เซนติเมตร (th) ‎(sayntìmáyt)
Turkish: santimetre (tr), santim (tr)
Ukrainian: сантиме́тр m ‎(santymétr)
Vietnamese: xentimét (vi), xen-ti-mét (vi), xăng-ti-mét (vi)
Yiddish: צענטימעטער m ‎(tsentimeter)

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