centimetre

See also: centímetre, centimètre, and centi-metre

English

Alternative forms

(US) centimeter

Etymology

Borrowed from French centimètre.

Noun

centimetre (plural centimetres)

(Britain, Canada) (metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻² metres. Symbol: cm

Synonyms

cm, ㎝

Derived terms

Translations

one-hundredth of a metre

Arabic: سِنْتِيمِتْر‎‎ m (sintīmitr)
Moroccan Arabic: سنتيم‎‎ m (santīm)
Armenian: սանտիմետր (hy) (santimetr)
Asturian: centímetru (ast) m
Azerbaijani: santimetr
Belarusian: сантыме́тр m (santymjétr)
Bengali: সেন্টিমিটার (bn) (śenṭimiṭar)
Bulgarian: сантиме́тър (bg) m (santimétǎr)
Catalan: centímetre (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 釐米, 厘米 (lei⁴ mai⁵), 公分 (gung¹ fan¹)

Hakka: 公分 (kûng-fûn)

Mandarin: 釐米, 厘米 (zh) (límǐ), 公分 (zh) (gōngfēn)

Min Nan: 公分 (zh-min-nan) (kong-hun)
Czech: centimetr (cs) m
Danish: centimeter (da) c
Dutch: centimeter (nl)
Esperanto: centimetro (eo)
Faroese: sentimetur m
Finnish: senttimetri (fi)
French: centimètre (fr) m
Galician: centímetro (gl) m
Georgian: სანტიმეტრი (sanṭimeṭri)
German: Zentimeter (de) m
Greek: εκατοστόμετρο (el) (ekatostómetro)
Hebrew: סנטימטר‎‎ (he) m (sant'imet'er)
Hindi: सेंटीमीटर m (sēṇṭīmīṭar)
Hungarian: centiméter (hu)
Ido: centimetro (io)
Indonesian: sentimeter (id)
Interlingua: centimetro
Irish: ceintiméadar m

Italian: centimetro (it) m
Japanese: センチメートル (ja) (senchimētoru), センチ (ja) (senchi)
Kannada: ಸೆಂಟೀಮೀಟರು (seṇṭīmīṭaru)
Khmer: សង់ទីម៉ែត្រ (km) (sɑngtiimaetrɔɔ)
Korean: 센티미터 (ko) (sentimiteo), 센티 (senti), 센치 (ko) (senchi)
Lao: ຊັງຕີແມັດ (lo) (sang tī mæt)
Macedonian: сантиме́тар m (santimétar)
Malay: sentimeter
Norwegian:
Bokmål: centimeter (no) m

Nynorsk: centimeter m
Persian: سانتی‌متر‎‎
Polish: centymetr (pl) m
Portuguese: centímetro (pt) m
Romanian: centimetru (ro)
Russian: сантиме́тр (ru) m (santimétr)
Serbo-Croatian: центиметар m, centimetar (sh) m
Slovak: centimeter (sk) m
Slovene: centimeter m
Spanish: centímetro (es) m
Swahili: sentimita (sw)
Swedish: centimeter (sv) c
Tagalog: kadanpanukat, sentimetro, kadanmetro
Telugu: సెంటీమీటరు (seṇṭīmīṭaru)
Thai: เซนติเมตร (th) (sayntìmáyt)
Turkish: santimetre (tr), santim (tr)
Ukrainian: сантиме́тр m (santymétr)
Urdu: سینٹیمیٹر‎‎ m (seṇṭīmīṭar)
Uyghur: سانتىمېتىر‎‎ (santimëtir)
Vietnamese: xen-ti-mét (vi), xăng-ti-mét (vi)
Yiddish: צענטימעטער‎‎ m (tsentimeter)

Further reading

centimetre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

centimeter, recitement, remittence

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