What is "centimeter"

Usage examples of "centimeter".

Since red-bellied toads and yellow-bellied toads are smaller than common toads, and he reckons the length of the flat bodies one at five centimeters, two at five and a half, and one at six, they must have been anouras and not common toads, which sometimes grow to a length of fifteen centimeters.

Instantly a noise blanker cut off all sounds for a few centimeters around the equipment, so that no one could hear what was said.

A dock of ferroconcrete extended out from the shore, at the end of which was moored a motor yacht, twenty-five meters if it was a centimeter.

He was a sizable man, though some thirty centimeters shorter than the towering Horseface and correspondingly lighter.

The knife was more delicate than the issue-model Jamieson tucked into her boot, hand-made by Ildaren of Marrakesh, a slender-edged spike of steel fifteen centimeters long.

Cultivation on nonirrigated land is limited essentially to the mountain valleys, foothills, and steppes, which have thirty or more centimeters of rainfall annually.

That may be especially true of the Pachomian Order because we are merely a centimeter above a lay sisterhood, no pun intended.

Seventh and Eighth Fleets were mere centimeters apart in the Anderson One System and Pesthouse, respectively.

He could barely nod, afraid that if he moved his neck more than two centimeters his balls would explode with a pyroclastic flow that might obliterate several villages down the hill.

One arm-mounted ceramic blade shot out a meter and with a single low, sicklelike swipe tried to reduce him in height by half a dozen centimeters.

Most awful were the hands, whose fingers were not of flesh but of long spikelike claws twenty or more centimeters long, and not only pointed but barbed as well.

The creature looked like a stinkbug, but according to the overdoc it was more than ten centimeters long.

Or I should say, he was perhaps descended from the ape but he did not carry the killing genes any longer, any more than he carried the genes for a heavy supraorbital ridge of hairy skin or thick bones or a skull with only 650 cubic centimeters capacity.

These were glowing adjurations that might be a hundred kilometers long, lettered in elongated characters designed to be intelligible only to one hurtling past them at a distance of a few centimeters and a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour.

There is one wound two centimeters long in the upper anterior left chest in the second interspace, and one wound five centimeters long and a maximum of one point six centimeters deep in the anteromedial left deltoid, a slashing injury.