English
Etymology
Borrowed from French centimètre; equivalent to centi- + metre.
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.tɪ.miː.tə/
- (medicine, dated) IPA(key): /ˈsɑ̃.-/, /ˈsɒn.-/
Noun
centimetre (plural centimetres)
- (metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10−2 metres. Symbol: cm
- Synonyms: cm, ㎝
- Holonyms: decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
- Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre
2025 August, “The International System of Units (SI)”, in Bureau International des Poids et Mesures[1], archived from the original on 17 September 2025, page 147:It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm2 or square millimetre), cc (for either cm3 or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).
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)
- Hokkien: 公分 (zh-min-nan) (kong-hun)
- Mandarin: 釐米 / 厘米 (límǐ), 公分 (zh) (gōngfēn)
- 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: סֶנְטִימֶטֶר (he) m (sant'imet'er)
- Hindi: सेंटीमीटर m (sẽṭīmīṭar)
- Hungarian: centiméter (hu)
- Icelandic: sentimetri m
- 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) (sɑngtimaet)
- Korean: 센티미터 (ko) (sentimiteo), 센티 (senti), 센치 (ko) (senchi)
- Lao: ເຊັນຕີແມັດ (sen tī mæt)
- Latin: centimetrum
- Lü: ᦌᦵᧃᦎᦲᦙᦶᧆ (senṫiimaed)
- Macedonian: сантиме́тар m (santimétar)
- Malay: sentimeter
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: сантиметр (mn) (santimetr)
- Mongolian script: ᠰᠠᠨ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠢᠮᠧᠲ᠋ᠷ (santimētr)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: centimeter (no) m
- Nynorsk: centimeter m
- Persian: سانتیمتر (sânti-metr)
- Polish: centymetr (pl) m
- Portuguese: centímetro (pt) m
- Romanian: centimetru (ro)
- Russian: сантиме́тр (ru) m (santimétr)
- Sanskrit: शतिमान (śatimāna)
- Scottish Gaelic: ceudameatair m
- Serbo-Croatian: центиметар m, centimetar (sh) m
- Shan: သဵၼ္တိမႅတ်
- Sinhalese: සෙන්ටීමීටර් (senṭīmīṭar), සෙණ්ටීමීටර් (seṇṭīmīṭar)
- Slovak: centimeter (sk) m
- Slovene: centimeter m
- Spanish: centímetro (es) m
- Swahili: sentimita (sw)
- Swedish: centimeter (sv) c
- Tagalog: sentimetro (tl)
- Telugu: సెంటీమీటరు (seṇṭīmīṭaru)
- Thai: เซนติเมตร (th) (sen-dtì-méet)
- 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), phân (vi)
- Welsh: centimetr
- Yiddish: צענטימעטער m (tsentimeter)
- Yoruba: sẹ̀ǹtímítà
|
Further reading
Anagrams