Every day, thousands of small, centimetre large objects burn up harmlessly as meteors in the atmosphere.

The centimetre gram second system of units (abbreviated CGS or cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the second as the unit of time.

Microwave transmission is the transmission of information or energy by electromagnetic waves whose wavelengths are conveniently measured in small numbers of centimetre these are called microwaves .

The land still rises at the rate of about one centimetre per year, as an effect of the last ice age that ended in the 7th millennium BC.

The rings of Saturn are made up of icy objects ranging in size from one centimetre to hundreds of metres, each of which is on its own orbit about the planet.