centimetre

Noun

(plural centimetres)

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

Origin

Borrowing from French centimètre.

See also: centimètre

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System they are the gramme, centimetre and second.
The intensity of the stream of energy passing per second through a square centimetre when a given pure tone is sounded is more definite and can be measured.
Thus a= 2.54 cros., or one inch very nearly.] Tables Of Surface-Tension In the following tables the units of length, mass and time are the centimetre, the gramme and the second, and the unit of force is that which if it acted on one gramme for one second would communicate to it a velocity of one centimetre per second: - Table of Surface-Tension at 20° C. (Quincke).
Heavier howitzers had been sent for from Japan, and on the 1st of October the first batteries of 28 centimetre (11 in.) howitzers came into action.
In.," or 14,000 grms. per square centimetre, and a similar view prevailed among high authorities more than twenty years later.

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