Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson presenting the OscarÂ® for Makeup and Hairstyling to Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews for their work on Dallas Buyers Club at the 86th OscarsÂ® in 2014.
âºâº Definition: Centimeter. A centimetre (American spelling centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of length that is equal to one hundreth of a metre, the current SI base unit of length. A centimetre is part of a metric system. It is the base unit in the centimetre-gram-second system of units. A corresponding unit of area is the square centimetre.
A centimeter, sometimes also written âcentimetreâ or abbreviated cm, is a unit of measurement in the metric system that is equal to one hundredth of a meter.Accordingly, there are exactly 100 centimeters per meter.ne centimeter is equal to 0.4 inches. Conversion to inches is achieved by multiplying the smaller unit by 0.39. Distance normally is measured in meters so that one mile would be the equivalent of 1.6 kilometers, or about 160,000 centimetres. Great Britain adopted the metric system in 1965.