cm

Other forms of cm

plural

cms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cm

What does cm mean?

cm means "a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cm?

cm has 1 syllable: cm.

What is another word for cm?

Close synonyms include centimeter, centimetre, curium, atomic number 96. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cm a common word?

cm is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.