centimeter, centimetre

1

In SI and previous versions of the metric system, a unit of length, = 0.01 meter.

2

A unit of electric capacitance, 19th – 20th centuries:

In the electrostatic system a charged body has unit capacity if its potential is one E.S.U. of potential when it is given a charge of one E.S.U. This unit is called the centimetre.¹

1. Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy, volume 1, Magnetism and Electricity.
London: H.M.S.O., 1938.

Section 168. Bolding is in the original.