centimetre

noun

1. 厘米
   a unit for measuring length. There are 100 centimetres in a metre.

in AM, use 美国英语用 centimeter


1. N-COUNT 厘米
   A centimetre is a unit of length in the metric system equal to ten millimetres or one-hundredth of a metre.
   1. ...a tiny fossil plant, only a few centimetres high.
      一株很小的化石植物，只有几厘米高

1. The snails are no larger than one centimetre across.
   这些蜗牛体宽不超过1厘米。
2. How many imperial inches are there in one metric centimetre?& naught point three nine three seven inches.
   一厘米等于多少英寸？&等于0.397英寸。
3. Admittedly, at an average density of 100-1,000 molecules per cubic centimetre ( compared with 100 billion billion in air at sea level), it is a pretty thin gas.
   诚然，分子平均密度10^2-10^3/cm^3的气体非常稀薄（海平面处是10^26/cm^3）。
4. The symptoms of black spot are small round black patches, ranging from 1 millimetre to 1 centimetre, on the upper side of the leaf.
   黑斑病的特征是叶子上表面有小小的黑色圆斑，直径从1毫米到1厘米不等。
5. An analysis of curative effect of chronic prostatomegaly treated by decimetre and centimetre waves
   分米波厘米波经直肠治疗慢性前列腺增生症的疗效分析
6. With the introduction of the metric system in Hong Kong, both English and Chinese newspapers calculate their advertisement charges in column centimetre.
   香港在实行十进制后，各中英文报纸改用[栏厘米位]计算广告收费。
7. The length of this pencil is seventeen centimetre.
   这铅笔17厘米长。
8. German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue.
   德国女学生安妮卡·埃姆勒用她7厘米长的大舌头把自己“舔”进了《吉尼斯世界纪录》。
9. The need for grip outweighs drag, so we put on every square centimetre of wing we can.
   在这里抓地力的需求如此重要，以至于我们利用了每一平方厘米。
10. The movement of the earth's tectonic plates is forcing the Himalayas upwards, reportedly causing Everest to grow by about a centimetre every year.
    地球板块的活动使喜马拉雅山不断升高，据说珠穆朗玛峰每年升高1厘米左右。
11. Per square centimetre, human skin has as many hair follicles as that of other great apes.
    人类皮肤上每平方厘米的毛囊数与其他的类人猿相当。
12. Quite often it is found that in an apparently uniform piece of rock the thermal conductivity differs from centimetre to centimetre.
    一块看来很均匀的岩石试件，却经常发现它每一厘米的热导率都不一样。
13. A centimetre length of hair corresponds to roughly a month of growth, the team reports.
    一厘米长的毛发经历了大约一个月的生长期，研究团队报告说。
14. A scale of ten kilometres to the centimetre, a scale of one to a million
    一厘米代表十公里的比例、一比一百万的比例
15. A distance of countless light-years still comes no closer to infinity than does a single centimetre.
    无数光年的距离仍不比1厘米更接近无限。
16. The analysis is based on a cubic centimetre of soil scooped up by the lander's robotic arm and introduced into one of its eight ovens, where it was gradually heated to1000C.
    探测器机器手臂在火星上挖掘了一立方厘米土壤并将其放入烤炉，在那里逐渐被加热到摄氏千度。在此基础上对土壤做出分析。
17. This ruler have one scale in centimetre and another in inch.
    这把尺上有厘米的刻度和英寸的刻度。
18. The market now understands that you can probably not push more capital in a square centimetre and carry it around than you can in a coloured diamond.
    现在市场很明白，没有什么可以像彩钻一样，你可以将大量的资本投入到它那一平方厘米中，而且可以随身携带。
19. It was impossible to move so much as a centimetre in any direction.
    但是不论朝什么方向，他连一毫米都动弹不得。
20. No one can jump a centimetre higher than the height he can jump, nor run a minute longer than the length he can run.
    任何人不可超过速度一分一秒，逾越高度一分一厘。
21. Round each measurement to the nearest whole inch or centimetre.
    将每个测量数目四舍五入到最近的英寸或厘米整数。
22. Increase the width of the margins by a centimetre.
    将页边空白增加1厘米。
23. With your hands, or a rolling pin, roll each into a long oval shape, about half a centimetre, or a quarter of an inch thick.
    用手或用擀面杖，将每个面球擀成长的椭圆形，大概半公分或者四分之一英寸厚。
24. The receptional system of a double antenna's correlative processing of centimetre wave band based on structure of correlative central processing is designed. Besides, The character of the system is tested.
    根据相关集中处理结构模型设计了一个厘米波段双天线相关处理接收系统，对系统性能进行了测试。

noun

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

   Synonym:    centimetercm