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Centimetre gets its name from the Latin word for 100, being one-hundredth of a metre. Cf "milli", one thousandth and "deci", one-tenth.
CM represents the word centimeters as an abbreviation in the metric system. It is ahttp://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Units_of_measurement of http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Length in the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Metric_system, equal to one hundredth of a meter.
One hundredth.
That's the correct spelling of the word.
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centimetre (British spelling), centimeter (U.S. spelling)
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The word "centimeter" comes from the Latin word "centum" meaning "hundred" and the Greek word "metron" meaning "measure." It is used to represent one-hundredth of a meter.
Another word for angle in writing is slant or bias.
It's centimeters, is how it's spelled. I edited the question with correct spelling for you. They are less than half an inch long. 2.5 centimeters makes an inch. "centi-" means hundredth, originating from the latin word, " centen hundred" and "-meter" means measure. It is a hundredth of a meter, on metric terms.
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The centimeter is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a meter. The prefix "centi-" comes from the Latin word "centum," meaning one hundred. Therefore, a centimeter represents one hundredth of a meter.
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