1 centimetre: how many millimetres, metres, kilometres?
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A centimetre is a unit of length derived from a metre: one of the basic units in SI (metric) system. Also, it was one of three basic units of CGS (centimetre-gram-second), the obsolete variant of the metric system.
1 centimetre = 10 millimetres = 0.01 metre = 0.00001 kilometres
ca. 2.54 centimetres = 1 inch
As it was mentioned above, a centimetre is a derivative of a metre. The prefix centi- is one of the metric prefixes (unit prefixes which modify the value of the basic unit), which means ‘divided by 100’. And so, a centimetre is 0.01 metre.
Below you will find a list of metric prefixes for other units derived from a metre:
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| Value | Name | Value | Name |
| 101 m | decametre | 10-1 m | decimetre |
| 102 m | hectometre | 10-2 m | centimetre |
| 103 m | kilometre | 10-3 m | millimetre |
| 106 m | megametre | 10-6 m | micrometre |
| 109 m | gigametre | 10-9 m | nanometre |
| 1012 m | terametre | 10-12 m | picometre |
| 1015 m | petametre | 10-15 m | femtometre |
| 1018 m | exametre | 10-18 m | attometre |
| 1021 m | zettametre | 10-21 m | zeptometre |
| 1024 m | yottametre | 10-24 m | yocometre |
Did you know?
Centimetres are used for measuring rainfall. Meteorologists use a cylindrical instrument called a rain gauge to catch rain water and, after some time, they measure the height of the accumulated water. The reading of the results is typically done in centimetres.
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