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A centimetre ( of Length in the Metric System , equal to one hundredth of a Metre , which is the current SI Base Unit of length. It can be written as 10×10^{-3} m ( Engineering Notation ) or ( Scientific E Notation ) — meaning or respectively. The centimetre is the base unit in the now deprecated Centimetre-gram-second system of units.

Though for many physical properties, SI Prefix es for factors of 103 are often preferred by technicians, the centimetre remains a practical unit of length for many everyday measurements. A centimetre is approximately the width of the fingernail of an adult person.

Nanometre <<< Micrometre <<< Millimetre < centimetre < Decimetre < Metre < Decametre < Hectometre < Kilometre

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EQUIVALENCE TO OTHER UNITS OF LENGTH

1 centimetre is '' Equal '' to:
  • 0.01 Metre s, which can be represented by 1.00 E-2 M (1 metre is equal to 100 centimetres)

  • about 0.393700787401575 Inch es (1 inch is equal to 2.54 centimetres exactly)


1 cubic centimetre is equal to 1 Millilitre , under the current SI system of units.
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USES OF CENTIMETRE

In addition to its use in the measurement of Length , the centimetre is used:
  • sometimes, to report the level of rainfall as measured by a Rain Gauge

  • in the CGS system, the centimetre is used to measure Capacitance

  • in Canadian maps, centimetres are used to make conversions from map scale to real world scale (kilometres)



UNICODE SYMBOLS

For the purposes of compatibility with Chinese , Japanese and Korea n ( CJK ) characters, Unicode has symbols for:
  • centimetre (㎝) - code 339D

  • square centimetre (㎠) - code 33A0

  • cubic centimetre (㎤) - code 33A4


They are useful only with East Asian fixed-width CJK fonts, because they are equal in size to one Chinese character.


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