--- title: "How to pronounce \"centim\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"centim\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/hdMMcjEepFI/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/centim" --- # How to pronounce "centim" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/sɛntɪm/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **cen·tim** ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - A coin making up one hundredth of an Andorran diner (but, like the diner, not legal tender). ### Example Sentences - "centim apart and so we wanted to know does this also occur at the mutational level so to test this we went on and performed whole exom and targeted deep" - "centimeters on a side could suspend a fully grown African elephant." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "centim" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "alterations and so what does this tell us what it tells us is that the exact same copy number alteration is found in disperate regions of the tumor three centim apart and so we wanted to know does this also occur at the mutational level so to test this we went on and performed whole exom and targeted deep resequencing of the same patient as shown here and so what's plotted are alic frequencies for particular mutations and we can see in the first" - **Watch at 8:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdMMcjEepFI&t=507s) ### Example 2 > "centimeters on a side could suspend a fully grown African elephant." - **Watch at 9:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni82f1-cAXg&t=582s) ### Example 3 > "centimeters a second while still making that Neutron spectrometer measurement so we can measure on the Fly we don't have" - **Watch at 23:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To9cQSa03so&t=1421s) ### Example 4 > "centimeters in between you and a far away Galaxy you're being pushed apart by the expansion of the universe faster and your recession velocity will be bigger" - **Watch at 5:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxFfUsDgnaU&t=353s) ### Example 5 > "centimeters thick and the whole thing weighs, just the mirror, weighs about 23 tons." - **Watch at 33:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jn3zb04-_I&t=2017s) ### Example 6 > "centimeter I can't give over to my daughter, you know? In my tiny London flat so yeah I mean, we took all the DVD's out of the sitting room and ripped them and all of the sudden" - **Watch at 44:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qJ-ervy_A&t=2652s) ### Example 7 > "squash it down until it's about that big, the radius just less than a centimeter, then the gravitational pull at the surface would be so great that light couldn't escape. And that is essentially the modern concept of a black hole. Now Mitchell and the Pl's um" - **Watch at 4:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjR8rHjqS9A&t=288s) ### Example 8 > "you'd start to have a kind of grasp of how quickly uh this thing grows and you could make some estimates from the different branches of the per cent centimeter per year growth rate and that could allow you to work back to when the thing originated so we do the same thing with viruses if you have a small observation window like this you can often make really robust inferences about things much deeper in time okay so so now as an analogy I just want to want" - **Watch at 2:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfejJVwy2p8&t=158s) ### Example 9 > "of physics right going down to you know 15 decimal points right um after zero centimeters okay length scale all the way up to our our distance scale all of the biochemistry not to you know is really boring on to the same type of physics this standard model is a theory that unifies these the forces except" - **Watch at 1:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3IzBYfPZfU&t=80s) ### Example 10 > "resonate exactly at these microwave frequencies so we don't want these precious photons 420 of them traveling per cubic centimeter from the big bang itself to get absorbed in some water molecule in the earth's atmosphere so you take it to a place with the fewest number of water molecules per per square centimeter of surface area and that happens to be either chile or my other project the simon's observatory is located or you" - **Watch at 78:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGwJLXzHs8&t=4701s) ## How to Pronounce "centim" - **Syllables**: cen · tim - **IPA**: `/sɛntɪm/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “centim”? “centim” is pronounced /sɛntɪm/ (cen · tim). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “centim”? “centim” has 2 syllables: cen · tim. ### What does “centim” mean? A coin making up one hundredth of an Andorran diner (but, like the diner, not legal tender). ### How can I hear “centim” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “centim” with synchronized subtitles. 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