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Centimetre

cm redirects here, alternate uses: cm (disambiguation)

A centimetre (symbol cm; American spelling: centimeter) is an SI unit of length.

One centimetre is:

• one-hundredth of one metre
• one-tenth of a decimetre
• ten millimetres.

See 1 E-2 m for a comparison with other lengths.

See also: orders of magnitude, conversion of units

millimetre << centimetre << decimetre

External links

• Length conversion: millimeters and micrometers to meters and prefixes
• Conversions of english and american length units to metric units
• Conversion calculator for units of length (Cleave Books)

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