- a variation of decimeter.
decimetre
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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
The length of the index is about one decimetre.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Luigi Palmieri
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
The same objections have been made to the definition of the kilogramme, at first considered as the mass of a cubic decimetre of water at 4° C., as to the first definition of the metre.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
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