centimeter
USSEN-tuh-mee-ter/ˈsɛntəˌmitɚ/UKSEN-ti-mee-tuh/ˈsɛntɪˌmiːtə/
Pluralcentimeters
- 1The American way to spell centimetre. It is a small unit of length, one hundredth of a meter.
One centimeter is about as wide as your little fingernail.
The ant on the table was less than a centimeter long.
Her plant grew two centimeters in just one week.
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