Definitions for centimeter

centimeter cen·ti·me·ter

Spelling: [sen-tuh-mee-ter]
IPA: /ˈsɛn təˌmi tər/

Centimeter is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 303 anagrams from letters in centimeter (ceeeimnrtt).

Definitions for centimeter

noun

  1. one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. Abbreviation: cm, cm.

Origin of centimeter

From the French word centimètre, dating back to 1795-1805. See centi-, meter1

Examples for centimeter

You recall how you threw the bombs on the forty-two centimeter.

The daughter had also been exposed and was comatose before she and her mother each received A 250 cubic centimeter transfusion.

This time he followed it as it changed to the five centimeter band.

The knife missed the lung by half a centimeter,—cursed be the devil!

The measures commonly used are the centimeter, meter and kilometer.

The sides of the cubes diminish from ten centimeters to one centimeter.

True, this wasn't an outpost set up by Israeli settlers to prevent a centimeter of retreat from the Whole Land.

A centimeter is 0.4 of an inch; it is a rather small half an inch.

I take the thousandth of a centimeter and the hundred of that as a unit.

I will take as a unit the one-hundred-thousandth of a centimeter.

Word Value for centimeter
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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