Centi- - Wikipedia

Jump to content

Contents

move to sidebar hide

• (Top)
• 1 See also
• 2 References

• Article
• Talk

English

• Read
• Edit
• View history

Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions

• Read
• Edit
• View history

General

• What links here
• Related changes
• Upload file
• Permanent link
• Page information
• Cite this page
• Get shortened URL

Print/export

• Download as PDF
• Printable version

In other projects

• Wikidata item

Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Prefix denoting one hundredth "Centi" redirects here. For other uses, see Centi (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Milli-. Look up centi- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Centi (symbol c) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one hundredth. Proposed in 1793,[1] and adopted in 1795, the prefix comes from the Latin centum, meaning "hundred" (cf. century, cent, percent, centennial). Since 1960, the prefix is part of the International System of Units (SI). It is mainly used in combination with the unit metre to form centimetre, a common unit of length.

Example

• A honey bee is about 1.3 centimetres long.[2]

See also

[edit]

• Percent

References

[edit]

1. ^ Commission temporaire de Poids & Mesures rêpublicaines, En exécution des Décrets de la Convention Nationale (1793). Instruction abrégée sur les mesures déduites de la grandeur de la Terre; uniformes pour toute la Rêpublique, et sur les Calculs relatifs à leur division décimale (in French) (Edition originale ed.). Paris, France: De l´imprimerie nationale exécutive du Louvre. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
2. ^ "Universcale: From the nanoworld to the universe — The worlds we measure using our infinite yardstick". Nikon. 2013. Archived from the original on 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-02-08.

SI prefixes

• v
• t
• e

Prefix		Base 10	Decimal	Adoption[nb 1]
Name	Symbol
quetta	Q	1030	1000000000000000000000000000000	2022[1]
ronna	R	1027	1000000000000000000000000000
yotta	Y	1024	1000000000000000000000000	1991
zetta	Z	1021	1000000000000000000000
exa	E	1018	1000000000000000000	1975[2]
peta	P	1015	1000000000000000
tera	T	1012	1000000000000	1960
giga	G	109	1000000000
mega	M	106	1000000	1873
kilo	k	103	1000	1795
hecto	h	102	100
deca or deka	da	101	10
—	—	100	1	—
deci	d	10−1	0.1	1795
centi	c	10−2	0.01
milli	m	10−3	0.001
micro	μ	10−6	0.000001	1873
nano	n	10−9	0.000000001	1960
pico	p	10−12	0.000000000001
femto	f	10−15	0.000000000000001	1964
atto	a	10−18	0.000000000000000001
zepto	z	10−21	0.000000000000000000001	1991
yocto	y	10−24	0.000000000000000000000001
ronto	r	10−27	0.000000000000000000000000001	2022[1]
quecto	q	10−30	0.000000000000000000000000000001
Notes ^ Prefixes adopted before 1960 already existed before SI. The introduction of the centimetre–gram–second system of units was in 1873.

1. ^ a b On the extension of the range of SI prefixes. CGPM. Resolution 3 of the 27th CGPM (2022). BIPM. 18 November 2022. doi:10.59161/cgpm2022res3e. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
2. ^ "Metric (SI) Prefixes". NIST.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Centi-&oldid=1327867787" Categories:

• SI prefixes
• 100 (number)

Hidden categories:

• CS1 French-language sources (fr)
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles containing Latin-language text

Search Search Toggle the table of contents Centi- 50 languages Add topic