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Centimetre   Listen
noun
Centimetre, Centimeter  n.  The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Centimetre" Quotes from Famous Books



... will find it convenient to provide himself with a few small porcelain basins, glass beakers, cubic centimetre measures, two or three 200 c.c. flasks with a mark on the neck, a few pipettes of various sizes, 10 c.c., ...
— The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics - A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student • Franklin Beech

... de temps en temps d'angoissantes envies de te voir. Dans ces moments-la il me semble que je realise chaque metre, chaque centimetre de l'effroyable distance qui nous separe. Je suis oblige de lutter fortement contre ces idees qui ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al

... he said, half to himself, "to identify a person by means of the arrangement of the sweat glands or pores. Poroscopy, Dr. Edmond Locard, director of the Police Laboratory at Lyons, calls it. The shape, arrangement, number per square centimeter, all vary in different individuals. Besides, here we have added the ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve



Words linked to "Centimetre" :   mm, centimeter, dm, metric linear unit, decimetre, millimeter



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