centimetre

See also: centímetre, centimètre, and centi-metre

English

Alternative forms

centimeter (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from French centimètre; equivalent to centi- +‎ metre.

Pronunciation

(British) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɪ.miː.tə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(medicine, dated) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ̃.-/, /ˈsɒn.-/

Noun

centimetre (plural centimetres)

(metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻² metres. Symbol: cm
Synonyms: cm, ㎝

Holonyms: decimetre < metre < kilometre

Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre

Derived terms

Translations

one-hundredth of a metre

Arabic: سِنْتِيمِتْر m (sintīmitr)
Moroccan Arabic: سنتيم m (santīm)
Armenian: սանտիմետր (hy) (santimetr)
Asturian: centímetru (ast) m
Azerbaijani: santimetr
Belarusian: сантыме́тр m (santymjétr)
Bengali: সেন্টিমিটার (bn) (śenṭimiṭar)
Bulgarian: сантиме́тър (bg) m (santimétǎr)
Catalan: centímetre (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 釐米 / 厘米 (lei⁴ mai⁵), 公分 (gung¹ fan¹)

Hakka: 公分 (kûng-fûn)

Hokkien: 公分 (zh-min-nan) (kong-hun)

Mandarin: 釐米 / 厘米 (límǐ), 公分 (zh) (gōngfēn)
Czech: centimetr (cs) m
Danish: centimeter (da) c
Dutch: centimeter (nl)
Esperanto: centimetro (eo)
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)
Hebrew: סֶנְטִימֶטֶר (he) m (sant'imet'er)
Hindi: सेंटीमीटर m (sẽṭīmīṭar)
Hungarian: centiméter (hu)
Icelandic: sentimetri m
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)
Kannada: ಸೆಂಟೀಮೀಟರು (seṇṭīmīṭaru)
Khmer: សង់ទីម៉ែត្រ (km) (sɑngtimaet)
Korean: 센티미터 (ko) (sentimiteo), 센티 (senti), 센치 (ko) (senchi)
Lao: ເຊັນຕີແມັດ (sen tī mæt)
Latin: centimetrum
Lü: ᦌᦵᧃᦎᦲᦙᦶᧆ (senṫiimaed)
Macedonian: сантиме́тар m (santimétar)
Malay: sentimeter
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: сантиметр (mn) (santimetr)

Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠨ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠢᠮᠧᠲ᠋ᠷ (santimētr)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: centimeter (no) m

Nynorsk: centimeter m
Persian: سانتی‌متر (sânti-metr)
Polish: centymetr (pl) m
Portuguese: centímetro (pt) m
Romanian: centimetru (ro)
Russian: сантиме́тр (ru) m (santimétr)
Sanskrit: शतिमान (śatimāna)
Scottish Gaelic: ceudameatair m
Serbo-Croatian: центиметар m, centimetar (sh) m
Shan: သဵၼ္တိမႅတ်
Slovak: centimeter (sk) m
Slovene: centimeter m
Spanish: centímetro (es) m
Swahili: sentimita (sw)
Swedish: centimeter (sv) c
Tagalog: sentimetro (tl)
Telugu: సెంటీమీటరు (seṇṭīmīṭaru)
Thai: เซนติเมตร (th) (sen-dtì-méet)
Turkish: santimetre (tr), santim (tr)
Ukrainian: сантиме́тр m (santymétr)
Urdu: سینٹیمیٹر m (seṇṭīmīṭar)
Uyghur: سانتىمېتىر (santimëtir)
Vietnamese: xen-ti-mét (vi), xăng-ti-mét (vi), phân (vi)
Welsh: centimetr
Yiddish: צענטימעטער m (tsentimeter)
Yoruba: sẹ̀ǹtímítà

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centimeter, recitement, remittence

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