centimetre

SI unit of length equal to one hundredth of a metre
Intangible unit_of_length Q174728
centimetre
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Facts

13 properties
Short name
cm, cm[9]
Conversion to SI unit
+0.01[11]
Conversion to standard unit
10k (0–394k, n=11)[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[7]
Different from
cent[10]
Measured physical quantity
pituus[4]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C49668[8]
Subdivision of this unit
millimetre
Unicode character
㎝[6]
Unit symbol
公分, সে.মি., cm, سانتی‌متر, ס"מ, см, സെ.മീ., см, см, 厘米, см, см, سم, ச.மீ., cm, cm, cm, sm, cm, cm, cm, 釐米, 厘米, 釐米, 厘米, 厘米, 厘米, см, cm, cm, cm, cm, cm, cm, cm, cm, cm[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
wd:Q174728 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)[23]
🏷️ Also known as
en cm en centimetres en centimetre ar السنتمتر ar سم ar سنتيمترات ar سنتيمتر ar سينتمتر cs centimetr da centimeter de Zentimeter de Centimeter el εκατοστό el εκατοστόμετρο es centímetro es centimetro es cms es cm es centímetros es centimetros
🔖 Identifiers · 27
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2008006746
OpenAlex ID
C170836239
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300379098
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/centimetre
FAST ID
1746445
FactGrid item ID
Werner Stötzer
Freebase ID
/m/024_6
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
centimeter
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
11216
Interlingual Index ID
i108492
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
170836239
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Museum-digital tag ID
86146
NE.se ID
centimeter
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
term/54FDF926-72E8-4090-A5B1-1E453990812B
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564113605171
Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID
centimetre
QUDT dimension ID
A0E0L1I0M0H0T0D0
QUDT unit ID
CentiM
UCUM code
cm
UN/CEFACT Common Code
CMT
WikiKids ID
Centimeter
Wolfram Language unit code
"Centimeters"
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
13680636-n
World of Physics ID
Centimeter
Wurvoc.org measure ID
centimetre

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Measured physical quantity 1
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Summary

centimetre is an unit of length[1].

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  1. 10d ago · Jarekt · 2026-10-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 107
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'ast', 'ay', 'az', 'azb', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Unit symbol: cm"
  2. 7w ago · Arpyia · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Unit symbol → {'lang': 'zh-tw', 'text': '公分'}, {'lang': 'bn', 'text': 'সে.মি.'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'cm'} +34
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Unit symbol: cm"
  3. 20w ago · Warudo · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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