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nouna coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unittype of:
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nouna fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togotype of:
Definition that contains centime
- l a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
- l a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
- bar (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- tape measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths
- yard a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- cd the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
- candle the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
- pace a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- gal a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)
- pint a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters