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decimetre

[ UK /dˈɛsɪmˌiːtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter

How To Use decimetre In A Sentence

  • Thus, water reaching the playa continues across it towards the lowest point, and flows in this direction persist long enough to erode and maintain channels that are metres in width and decimetres deep.
  • The room was a spherical shape, surrounded by very thick glass at least a decimetre thick.
  • It is at a distance of 12,841,348, 284,623 metres and 7 decimetres that this planet describes its orbit round the sun in 572 years, 194 days, 12 hours, 43 minutes, 9.8 seconds.
  • At certain levels, carbonate-rich beds are present, inside which decimetre-scale hard calcareous concretions develop.
  • A thin (a few decimetres thick) conglomerate, with Miocene carbonate clasts bored by bivalves, and volcanic cobbles, occurs at the base.
  • Thus, water reaching the playa continues across it towards the lowest point, and flows in this direction persist long enough to erode and maintain channels that are metres in width and decimetres deep.
  • Apertures range from millimetre to decimetre.
  • The tonalite is gneissic, banded on a decimetre scale, and loaded with discrete mafic enclaves, metasedimentary xenoliths and garnet, feldspar and rutile xenocrysts, such that the body has a migmatitic appearance.
  • Units: cubic cm (cm³) cubic ft (cu ft; ft³) 1 ft³ = 28.32 dm³ cubic decimetre (dm³) cubic yd (cu yd; yd³) 1 yd³ = 0.7646 m³ cubic m (m³) 1728 in³ = 1 ft³ 5. Appendices
  • Clasts vary in size from a few decimetres to well over a metre in the thicker beds.
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