Meaning & use
decimeter
A metric unit of length equal to one-tenth of a meter, or ten centimeters.
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The board measured exactly three decimeters, or thirty centimeters, in length.
Students used a ruler to measure the box's height in decimeters for the science project.
A note on using this word
Decimeter is rarely used in everyday measurement compared to centimeters or meters, but appears often in metric science education.
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