cm

IPA: km

Root Word: CM

(Canada) A member of the Order of Canada.
(India) Initialism of chief minister. [The leader of government in many semi-autonomous and constituent federal states.]
(Japan) Initialism of commercial message.
(chess) Initialism of Candidate Master.
(astronautics) Initialism of command module. [A section of a manned spacecraft in which the astronauts live and operate the craft.]
(cryptography) Initialism of cryptographic module.
(engineering, uncountable) Initialism of configuration management.
(military) Initialism of cruise missile. [A missile designed for guided flight over the full course of its path.]
(music, archaic) Initialism of common meter. [(hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.]
(medicine) Initialism of College of Medicine.
(US, astronautics) Initialism of Command Module (“Apollo Command Module”).
Abbreviation of centimorgan. [(biology) A length of chromosome in which an average of 0.01 crossover occurs per generation.]

Examples of "cm" in Sentences

Cross-sectional area of iron tube = 192 cm³ / 8 cm = 24 cm²
However, a tile die measuring 10 x 10 cm has an area of 100 cm².
For example, a tile die measuring 15 cm x 15 cm has an area of 225 cm².
The “studio model” has the FastLeg structures placed at 10 cm from the tabletop sides.
The “Kitchen model” has the FastLeg structures placed at 30 cm from the tabletop sides.
Spread the pecans about 3 inches 8 cm from the short edge of the dough in a 3-inch-wide strip.
In the IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers (Wkng. Gp 1), 28 cm is the midpoint of the B1 scenario in Table SPM-3.
Units: square mm (mm²) square ft (sq ft; ft²) 1 ft² = 0.0929 m² square cm (cm²) square yd (sq yd; yd2) 1 yd² = 0.8361 m² square m (m²) acre
Units: cubic cm (cm³) cubic ft (cu ft; ft³) 1 ft³ = 28.32 dm³ cubic decimetre (dm³) cubic yd (cu yd; yd³) 1 yd³ = 0.7646 m³ cubic m (m³) 1728 in³ = 1 ft³
The latter batch should yield about 1000 pumice-concrete solid bricks measuring 25 × 12 × 10 cm and displaying a compression strength of roughly 25 kg/cm² after approximately 3 months 'curing time.