- a variation of decimeter.
decimetre
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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
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 litre is equal to a cubic decimetre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
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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