decimeter

Definitions

Examples

• In the "Children's House" days they had the long stair rods which contain the meter and its decimeter subdivisions.

• Five of them placed in a row will, of course, give the length of the decimeter; and two of them will weigh a decagram.

• As the litre is a cubic decimeter, the key to the measure of length is also the key to measures of capacity.

• The intermediate standard decimeter, lm (Fig. 2), is put in place of the mirror, b.

• We may estimate it at 1/3 or 1/4 of an ohm for polar surfaces one decimeter square, separated by a distance of five centimeters.