fivecentimetre
Five centimetre refers to a unit of length equal to five centimetres. In numeric terms, 5 cm equals 50 millimetres or 0.05 metres. The term is commonly written as five centimetres (plural) in British English and five centimeters in American English; the singular form is five centimetre.
The centimetre is a unit in the metric system, derived as one hundredth of a metre. It
In practical terms, five centimetres is a small but commonly encountered length. For example, a standard AA-sized
Historically, the centimetre is part of the metric system developed in the late 18th century. The metre