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  • noun Plural form of centimetre.

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Examples

  • Now it falls in centimetres and paralyses the country.

    Weather Chaos Cripples Britain Dungeekin 2009

  • He raised the gun, focusing his sight down the barrel, trying to make out distinct shapes amongst the thin but plentiful branches hanging only centimetres from the ground.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • It will look as if the actresses are only a few centimetres from the audience.

    3D Sex and Zen | clusterflock 2009

  • Flipping open the phone, holding the screen the requisite five centimetres from the tip of my nose, I read “Missed call: G7.”

    alarm 2007

  • Flipping open the phone, holding the screen the requisite five centimetres from the tip of my nose, I read “Missed call: G7.”

    zizi 2007

  • You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows their height in centimetres, for instance.

    metric 2005

  • You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows their height in centimetres, for instance.

    metric 2005

  • You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows their height in centimetres, for instance.

    metric 2005

  • For example, the little cube which has a base of 2 centimetres is double the size, as to base, of the smallest cube which has a base of 1 centimetre, while the largest cube having a base of 10 centimetres, differs by barely 1/10 from the base of the cube next it in the series (the one of 9 centimetres base).

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

  • The templates are made of paper and come in “average” sizes which you trim to your exact specifications (they show measurements in inches and centimetres, which is nice for us metric-types).

    Use templates to help arrange furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2007

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