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.
Part of the IT standards and organizations glossary: The gram (abbreviation, g or gm) is the cgs (centimeter/gram/second) unit of mass. A force of one dyne (1 dyn), applied to a mass of one gram (1 g), will cause that mass to accelerate at one centimeter per second squared (1 cm/s2).