Centi prefix

Prefix deci- centi- milli- micro- nano- pico- fcmto- atto- zepto-... 

Larger and smaller distances may be measured with units formed by the addition of prefixes to the word meter. The important metric prefixes are listed in Table 2-2. The most important prefixes are kilo, milli, and centi. The prefix kilo means 1000 times the basic unit, no matter to which basic unit it is attached. For example, a kilodollar is 1000. The prefix milli indicates one-thousandth of the basic unit. Thus, 1 millimeter is 0.001 meter 1 mm = 0.001 m. The prefix centi means one-hundredth. A centidollar is one cent the name for this unit of money comes from the same source as the metric prefix. 

The centigrade scale was first proposed in 1694 by Renaldi. Centi is a Latin prefix meaning hundred. ... 

The most common prefixes used in medicine are kilo, which is 1,000 times the base unit, centi, which is 1/100 of the base unit, and milli, which is 1/1,000 times the base unit. These prefixes are attached to the base unit to give the multiple of the base unit being measured. Therefore, a kilogram is 1,000 grams. A centimeter is 1/100 of a meter. A milliliter is 1/1,000 of a liter. 

Recall the numerical meaning of centi is 1 x 10 2, so we can substitute the prefix multiplier c for its numerical equivalent. We don t have to do this substitution to both sides because in trading c for its numerical equivalent, we haven t changed the value on the right side. 

Prefixes can be used with all of the primary and secondary units to change their values by powers of ten (Table 1.2). Note the abbreviations for the units. Capitalization is important meters and moles per liter (molar), or mill- and mega-, differ only by capitalization. There are prefixes for some of the intermediate values (for example, centi- is 10-2) but the common convention is to prefer these prefixes, and write 10 mm or.01 m instead of 1 cm. 

While hecto, deka, deci, and centi are SI prefixes, their use should generally be avoided except for the SI unit-multiples for area and volume and nontechnical use of centimeter, as for body and clothing measurement. The prefix hecto should be avoided also because the longhand symbol h may be... 

The metric system and its newer counterpart, SI, use subunits and multiples of units that are equal to powers of 10, and they also use the same prefixes to mean certain fractions or multiples, no matter what primary unit is being modified. The meter is the primary unit of length the gram is the primary unit of mass and the liter (the cubic meter in SI) is the primary unit of volume. The prefixes centi-(0.01), (0.001), and kilo (1000) are used with any of... 

What exponential number best represents each of the following metric prefixes (a) deci, (b) nano, (c) centi, d) micro, (e) miUi, and (f) kilo... 

B. pico, nano, milli, centi]—As shown in Figure 2-1 d, answer B has the prefixes arranged from smallest to largest. 

Prefix deci centi milli micro nano pico... 

State the numbers or fractions represented by the following metric prefixes, and write their abbreviations giga, mega, kilo, centi, milli, micro, nano, and pico. (For example, kilo is 10 and is represented by k.)... 

The only real use that we will make of the prefix deci- is with volume measurements, where a cubic decimeter is a useful sized volume. We rarely use the prefix centi- except with meters. 

We can use dimensional analysis to convert a measurement from one metric unit to another. We recognize that by definition 1 dollar = 100 cents, and also that 1 cent = 0.01 dollar. We can use a factor corresponding to either of those equalities. Note that cent is related to centi-, the metric prefix for 0.01. We can simply substitute... 

First, recognize that the prefix centi- means Moo of the base unit, the meter. Thus our conversion factor is either... 

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