Crossword clues for decimeter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decimeter \Dec"i*me`ter\, Decimetre \Dec"i*me`tre\, n. [F. d['e]cim[`e]tre; pref. d['e]ci- tenth (fr. L. decimus) + m[`e]tre. See Meter.] A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of decimetre from=US English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "decimeter".
Subsequent studies of the decimeter and decameter emission by James Warwick of the University of Colorado and others suggested that the magnetic axis of Jupiter is displaced a small fraction of a Jupiter radius from the axis of rotation, quite different from the terrestrial case, where both axes intersect at the center of the Earth.
From the intensity of the decimeter and decameter emission, astronomers also calculated what the energies and fluxes of electrons and protons in the Jovian magneto-sphere might be.
The pilot beam was solid monocrystal steel, I-section, one decimeter wide.
With their two decimeters difference in height, she was accustomed to stretching a little to kiss.
Tall for her age, she'd grow to be taller-though not so tall, Rissa hoped, as the twenty decimeters of Tregare's father, Hawkman Moray.
At the right of Control was a closet, only a few decimeters above the bulkhead now serving as deck, and the closet held a working sink.
A kind of ladder, more than two meters long and about three decimeters wide.
Then everybody helped line up the three travoises, and Tregare got his sticks loose, and he and Rissa lashed them across to form one frame¬work, the three units parallel and about four decimeters apart.
The rope was at least two decimeters in diameter and the Bull God only knew how long.
Pointing it perhaps three decimeters to one side of the commodore, she said to the moaning woman, "I'm afraid I was clumsy.
The jungle that surrounded them all stood four decimeters high, and covered a meter and a half of Palpatine's desk.
The roofs were made from wooden "shakes," slightly mounded pieces of wood about two decimeters long, a decimeter wide and a couple of centimeters thick.
Before they started, Professor Rosette requested that one of the men might be ordered to cut him a cubic decimeter out of the solid substance of Gallia.
By the appointed time the engineer had finished his task, and with all due care had prepared a cubic decimeter of the material of the comet.
If the speaker moved his head a decimeter or so from the focal spot, that went into haze as well.