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centimetre
(ˈsɛntɪmiːtə(r), Fr. sɑ̃timɛtr)
[F. centimètre: see centi- and metre.]
a. In the Metric system, a measure of length equal to 1/100 of a metre, or ·3937 (nearly 2/5) of an inch.
1801Dupré Neolog. Fr. Dict. 43 Centimètre..is the hundredth part of the mètre. 1809Naval Chron. XXII. 363 Its..diameter did not exceed a centimetre. 1865Reader 11 Feb. 162/3 It amounts to about eighty cubic centimetres.
b. attrib. and Comb., as centimetre-gramme-second, used attrib. to designate a system of measurement introduced in 1874 in which the unit of length is the centimetre, the unit of mass the gramme, and the unit of time the second; commonly abbreviated C.G.S.; centimetre wave, an electromagnetic wave of wavelength between 1 and 10 centimetres.
1875J. D. Everett (title) Illustrations of the Centimetre-Gramme-Second System of Units. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 699/1 In the Centimetre-Gramme-Second system of units, the absolute unit of force produces in one second, in a mass of one gramme, a velocity of one centimetre per second. 1884F. Krohn tr. Glaser de Cew's Magn. & Dyn.-Electr. Mach. p. xiii, The absolute or C.G.S. (centimetre-gramme-second) units. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 147/1 Centimetre waves. 1947Crowther & Whiddington Sci. at War Pl. xxiii, The aerial of a centimetre-wave radar. |