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centigram
[ sen-ti-gram ]
noun
- one 100th of a gram, equivalent to 0.1543 grain. : cg
centigram
/ ˈsɛntɪˌɡræm /
noun
- one hundredth of a gram
centigram
/ sĕn′tĭ-grăm′ /
- A unit of weight in the metric system equal to 0.01 gram.
- See Table at measurement
Word History and Origins
Origin of centigram1
Example Sentences
Then when I was going up, I had this idea that instead of like throwing her around by going too fast, I would be like quiet angry like my father got, and I’d just do everything exactly right, everything up to the centigram.
One target was Centigram Communications Corp. of San Jose, which was sued after its stock dropped from $14 to $11 in late 1994.
Although a judge threw out all but one charge, Centigram decided, after nearly a year of fighting, to settle for $1.5 million, a typical corporate approach.
For instance, the desire to weigh things to 1–10 mg. which should only have been weighed to a centigram, measuring to 1–10 mm., and calculating averages to several places of decimals.
Page 77—the first reference to centigram has been amended from c. to cgm.
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