Meters to Centimeters Converter

$$ 1 \left[\mathrm{m}\right] = 100 \left[\mathrm{cm}\right]$$

From:		\([\mathrm{m}]\)
To:		\([\mathrm{cm}]\)

Meter - is the base unit of length of the International System of Units (SI) and the symbol is m. The meter is currently defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in \(\frac{1}{299792458}\) of a second. The meter was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle. In 1799 the meter was redefined in terms of a prototype meter bar and the actual bar used was changed in 1889. The meter was redefined in 1960 in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of acertain emission line of krypton-86. In 1983 the current definition was adopted with slight modification made in 2002 to clarify that the meter is a measure of proper length.

Centimeter - is a unit of length in the metric system which is equal to one hundaredth of a meter. The centi is the SI prefix for a factor \(\frac{1}{100}\). It should be noted that the centimeter was the base unit of length in the now obsolete centimeter-gram-second (CGS) unit system. Besides the measurement of length, the centimeter is used to:

• report the level of the rainfall as measured by a rain gauge,
• in CGS system, the centimetre is used to measure capacitance (\(1 [\mathrm{cm}] = 1.113 \times 10^{-12} [\mathrm{F}]\),
• in maps to make conversions from map scale to real world scale (kilometers),
• represent second moment of areas \(\left[\mathrm{cm}^4\right]\), and
• the inverse of kyser which was the CGS unit or non-SI metric unit of wavenumber (1 kayser = 1 wave per cetimeter). The SI unit of wavenumber is the inverse meter \(\left[\mathrm{m}^{-1}\right]\).