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# centimetre

noun (centimetre, centimetres; cm — British spelling)

«centimetre» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Centimetre is the British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian way to spell centimeter, a small unit of length about the width of a fingernail. 100 centimetres make 1 metre. A metre is 100 centimetres. A centimetre is 10 millimetres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#m1)

### In the lessons

a unit of length for lines, sides of shapes and small objects; school rulers show centimetres; phrases «square centimetres» (cm²), «cubic centimetres» (cm³)

### Examples

- The worm is 6 centimetres long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x1)
- A rectangle is 8 centimetres by 3 centimetres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x2)
- 1 metre is 100 centimetres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x3)
- The tower is 25 centimetres tall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x4)
- Draw a line 12 centimetres long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x5)
- My hand is about 15 centimetres long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x6)
- The seedling grew 2 centimetres in a week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x7)
- Rain: 3 centimetres fell overnight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x8)
- The shoebox is 30 centimetres long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x9)
- Each square on the grid is one square centimetre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/#x10)

### Note

A unit, not a thing counted. Trap: square centimetres measure area, centimetres measure length. Same meaning as «centimeter»; only the spelling differs (-re in Britain, -er in the USA). Short form «cm».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «centimetre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/centimetre/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«centimetre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/centimetre.html) on Mova free.