Centimeter
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Millimeter
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Centimeters are abbreviated as cm.
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Millimeters are symbolized as mm
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Cm is used for measuring the height of a person, the length of
any object and distance.
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Millimeters can’t measure the height of a person. Mm can measure
the thickness of the objects; the diameter of cables, barrels etc, the
distances between the two points, the depth of rivers & lakes, oceans and the width of a paper sheet, and
for measuring the size of a medicine ETC
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Cm can be measured by a ruler because Cm
doesn’t come in a rounded and decimal value.
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The smallest measuring line in the ruler is
known as millimeters oftenly used in geometry measures.
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The unit system for centimeter is Metric.
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The unit system for Millimeters is System International derived
unit.
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Cm is one hundredth of a meter. SO, there are 100 centimeters
in a meter
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Mm is one thousandth of a meter. So, there are 1000 millimeters in a meter.
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Cm is bigger to Mm. One cm is equal
to 10 mm
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Mm is smaller to Cm. One mm is equal to 0.1 cm
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