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Centimetre
A
centimetre
(international spelling as used by the
International Bureau of Weights and Measures
; symbol
cm
) or
centimeter
(American spelling) is a
unit
of
length
in the
metric system
, equal to one hundredth of a
metre
,
centi
being the
SI prefix
for a factor of . The centimetre was the base unit of length in the now deprecated
centimetre–gram–second
(CGS) system of units.
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