Hypertext Webster Gateway: "decameter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Decameter \Dec"a*me`ter\, Decametre \Dec"a*me`tre\, n. [F.
d['e]cam[`e]tre; Gr. de`ka ten + m[`e]tre. See {Meter}.]
A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal
to about 393.7 inches.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
decameter
n : a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: {dekameter},
{decametre}, {dekametre}, {dam}, {dkm}]
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