Centimetre
Centimetre
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| Centimetre | |
|---|---|
 A carpenter's ruler with centimetre divisions | |
| General information | |
| Unit system | metric |
| Unit of | length |
| Symbol | cm |
| Conversions | |
| 1 cm in ... | ... is equal to ... |
SI units | 10 mm |
imperial & US system | ~0.3937 in |
 | Look up centimetre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
A centimetre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; symbol cm) or centimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of 1/100.[1] The centimetre was the base unit of length in the now deprecated centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units.
Though for many physical quantities, SI prefixes for factors of 103—like milli- and kilo-—are often preferred by technicians, the centimetre remains a practical unit of length for many everyday measurements. A centimetre is approximately the width of the fingernail of an average adult person.
Contents
1 Equivalence to other units of length
2 Other uses
3 Unicode symbols
4 See also
5 References
Equivalence to other units of length[edit]
1 centimetre = 10 millimetres = 0.01 metres = 0.393700787401574803149606299212598425196850 inches (There are exactly 2.54 centimetres in one inch.)
One 1 millilitre is defined as one cubic centimetre, under the SI system of units.
Other uses[edit]
In addition to its use in the measurement of length, the centimetre is used:
- sometimes, to report the level of rainfall as measured by a rain gauge [2]
- in the CGS system, the centimetre is used to measure capacitance, where 1 cm of capacitance = 6988111300000000000♠1.113×10−12 farads[3]
- in maps, centimetres are used to make conversions from map scale to real world scale (kilometres)
- to represent second moment of areas (cm4)
- as the inverse of the kayser, a CGS unit, and thus a non-SI metric unit of wavenumber: 1 kayser = 1 wave per centimetre; or, more generally, (wavenumber in kaysers) = 1/(wavelength in centimetres). The SI unit of wavenumber is the inverse metre, m−1.
Unicode symbols[edit]
For the purposes of compatibility with Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) characters, Unicode has symbols for:[4]
- centimetre (㎝) – code 339D
- square centimetre (㎠) – code 33A0
- cubic centimetre (㎤) – code 33A4
They are mostly used only with East Asian fixed-width CJK fonts, because they are equal in size to one Chinese character.
See also[edit]
- 1 E-2 m
Conversion of units, for comparison with other units of length- Reciprocal centimetre
- Orders of magnitude (length)
References[edit]
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^ Rain Measurement, Rain Gauge, Wireless Rain Gauge, Rain Gage, Rain Gauge Data
^ Capacitance - from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
^ CJK Compatibility excerpt from The Unicode Standard, Version 10.0.
Categories:
- Units of length
- Orders of magnitude (length)
- Centimetre–gram–second system of units
- SI units
- 100 (number)
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