decimetre
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- decimetric adjective
Example Sentences
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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 Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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 Poincaré, Lucien
The length of the index is about one decimetre.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi
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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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