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decimetre

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/ ˌdɛsɪˈmɛtrɪk, ˈdɛsɪˌmiːtə /

noun

  1.  dm.  one tenth of a metre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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For the fishing the natives make a hole in the ice, a decimetre in diameter.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

Each of the two parts of the double-galleried tunnel, one narrow and one wide, measures at most a decimetre in length.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

The length of the index is about one decimetre.

From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Luigi Palmieri

The litre is equal to a cubic decimetre.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Beyond the cotton-wool cylinder wherein ten cocoons are lodged in a row comes an empty space of half a decimetre or more.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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