1 centimetre
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
A clickable mosaic of objects
at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10−2 m and 10−1 m (1 cm and 10 cm).
- 1 cm – 10 millimeters
- 1 cm – 0.39 inches
- 1 cm – edge of square of area 1 cm2
- 1 cm – edge of cube of volume 1 ml
- 1 cm – approximate width of average fingernail
- 1.5 cm – length of a very large mosquito
- 2 cm – approximate width of an adult Human finger
- 2.54 cm – 1 inch
- 3.1 cm – 1 attoparsec (10−18 parsecs)
- 3.5 cm – width of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography
- 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball[1]
- 7.3–7.5 cm – diameter of a baseball[2]
- 8.6 cm × 5.4 cm – dimensions of a standard credit card[3]
