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.
The metric prefix centi- means one hundredth (1/100). So 1 centimetre is one hundredth of a metre. Thus 100 centimetres are required to make 1 metre. cm is short for centimeter, and the prefix centi means 1/100. Therefore, there are 100 cm in a meter. meter = 100 centimeters 2.75 m * (100 cm/1 m) = 275 cm There are 275 centimeters in 2.75 meters. There are 100 centimetres in one metre. Therefore, 2.75 metres is equal to 2 â¦ .75 x 100 = 275 centimetres.  .