dekameter
noun
a unit of length equal to 10 meters (32.81 feet). dam
decameter
-
a variation of
dekameter.
Example Sentences
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Hauled along by a network of mag-beams converging from a score of space tugs came the Conference Disk, two hectometers in diameter and a decameter thick at its hub.
From The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven
A decimeter is one-tenth of that, namely, 3.937 inches; and a decameter 39.37, or ten times the meter, and so on.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
