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Centimetre
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- 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.
In unicode, it is represented as ㎝ for use limited to some Oriental syllabaries. Square centimetre is represented as ㎠. Cubed centimetre is represented as ㎤.
millimetre << centimetre << decimetre
See also
- 1 E-2 m for a comparison with other lengths
- orders of magnitude
- conversion of units
External links
- Length conversion: millimeters and micrometers to meters and prefixes http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-millimeter.htm
- Conversions of English and American length units to metric units http://www.sengpielaudio.com/ConvLeng.htm
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