0 a unit of length equal to 0.01 of a metre
1 a unit of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to 0.01 metres or 0.3937 inches:
There is a ten centimetre gap between the table and the wall.
I need the measurements for the curtains in centimetres.
It was not until Thursday night, however, that the Germans brought their famous forty-two- centimetre guns into action.
Several species are common growing upon the bottom of ponds and slow streams, and range in size from a few centimetres to a metre or more in height.
She had had in her body one wound of ten centimetres in size.
The sterile branches grow to a height of forty to fifty centimetres, and from their bushy form the popular name of the plant, "horse-tail," is taken.
