Wordcyclopedia | English | centimetre, gram, second system

— A hundreth of a metre; 100 centimetres is one metre This pencil is 18 centimetres long.

— A gram is a basic measure of weight. This food has 1 gram of sugar.

— The second thing is the one that is number two (2) in order. I only have one older brothers and one younger brother. I'm the second child.

— A second is 1/60 of a minute. Sixty seconds is one minute. The winner won the race by five seconds.

— If you second a nomination, you support it and it will be voted. So moved. Do we have a second?

— A group of things that work together; a way of doing something. This coloured paper is part of my system for keeping lists of people.