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Centimetre Definition & Meaning

centimetre
noun
  1. a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter

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What does centimetre mean?
a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
What part of speech is centimetre?
Centimetre is a noun.

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