CENTIMETRE


Meaning of CENTIMETRE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cubic centimetre/metre/inch etc

75,000 million cubic metres of gas

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cubic

If they were packed tightly there could be 5 thousand million of them in a cubic centimetre of inflammation.

How many hydra per cubic centimetre teem in that pond?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Almost immediately her thumbnail found another groove opposite; she pulled, and the star came out about a centimetre .

But have only one centimetre of bare flesh in contact - and the building would absorb you.

It used to take centuries to build up a centimetre or two of topsoil.

Matt black with tiny fawn flecks, they are just under a centimetre long.

These have only one centimetre of padding and leave the thumb free to fold in safely.

To decrease the depth of a V neckline, deduct 1 from this figure for each 0.5 centimetre required.

X-rays and gamma rays are the shortest electromagnetic waves, with wavelengths less than a 1000 millionths of a centimetre .

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