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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 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 ''''' EQUIVALENCE TO OTHER UNITS OF LENGTH 1 centimetre is '' Equal '' to:
1 cubic centimetre is equal to 1 Millilitre , under the current SI system of units. ''''' USES OF CENTIMETRE In addition to its use in the measurement of Length , the centimetre is used:
UNICODE SYMBOLS For the purposes of compatibility with Chinese , Japanese and Korea n ( CJK ) characters, Unicode has symbols for:
They are useful only with East Asian fixed-width CJK fonts, because they are equal in size to one Chinese character. SEE ALSO
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