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.
Inches.  is the symbol for inches, as ' is for feet. In metric measurements, there is no symbol for centimetres, just the abbreviation: cm or cms; likewise m for meters, km for kilometres. Pretzel Â· 6 years ago. 2. Thumbs up.