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Definition of Decameters
1. decameter [n] - See also: decameter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decameters
Literary usage of Decameters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Arithmetic: With Oral and Written Exercises by George Washington Hull (1895)
"Write 18 decameters, 4 meters, 6 decimeters, and 7 centimeters in terms of decameters.
In terms of meters. In terms of decimeters. In terms of centimeters. ..."
2. Elementary Arithmetic, Oral and Written by William Guy Peck (1878)
"Change 25 decameters to meters-and decimals of a meter. 8. ... Write the metera
in the units place, decameters in tens place, ..."
3. The Arithmetic Help, for Pupils, Teachers, Business Men by Alvord D. Robinson (1902)
"... to the next higher denomination by removing the decimal point one place to
the left, as, 425 meters = 42.5 decameters = 4.25 ..."
4. Grammar School Arithmetic by Adelia Roberts Hornbrook, California State Text-book Committee (1904)
"=—mm. 390. Express 42 m. as centimeters. As decimeters. As decameters. ...
decameters ? SUGGESTION TO TEACHER. Let pupils find in meters and decimals the ..."
5. The Arithmetic Help, for Pupils, Teachers, Business Men by Alvord D. Robinson (1902)
"... denomination may be reduced to the next higher denomination by removing the
decimal point one place to the left, as, 425 meters = 42.5 decameters = i.25 ..."
6. A Mental Arithmetic: Based on Analysis and Induction by George Washington Hull (1896)
"4. Decimeters in a meter? Decameter? Kilometer? 5. decameters in a hectometer?
Kilometer? ... Hm. 100 sq. decameters = 1 sq. hectometer, "i-Hln- 100 sq. ..."
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