centimetre

See also: centímetre, centimètre, and centi-metre

English

Alternative forms

• centimeter (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from French centimètre; equivalent to centi- +‎ metre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɪ.miː.tə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (medicine, dated) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ̃.-/, /ˈsɒn.-/

Noun

centimetre (plural centimetres)

2. (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

• centimetre-gram-second
• centimetre of water
• centimetric
• cubic centimetre
• square centimetre
• subcentimetre

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 (santimétăr)
• 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 (sentiméter)
• 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:

  Iranian Persian: سانْتی‌مِتْر (sânti-metr), سانْتیمِتْر (fa) (sântimetr)

• 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

• centimetre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• centimeter, recitement, remittence