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"On a more serious note, look out for any thin, green insects about a decimeter in length.

The quarry once contained single quartz crystals in the decimeter and meter range.

Widths range from a decimeter to several meters.

"We aught to have intruders located to the decimeter."

He guided the shuttlecraft to a stop with its nose less than a decimeter from the terminal wall of the passage.

"You missed it by a decimeter.

At the same time, work was commissioned to precisely determine the mass of a cubic decimeter (one liter) of water.

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.

Besides common fractures and occasional faults the Ligérian shows in places remarkable pressure cones that can reach a decimeter in size.

V - specific volume in decimeter per kilogram (1 dm is equivalent to 1 liter)

It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39° Fahrenheit.

I think what you're trying to relay is how much weight would be in a cubic decimeter (as that's how much a Kg of water resides in).

Die zit achter een decimeter staal!'

Why, that the density of Gallia is just about double the density of the earth, which we know is only five kilogrammes to a cubic decimeter.

And in the central opening thus revealed, rose first one tray and then three others stacked beneath it-each legged to stand, one above the next, about a decimeter.

Made of precision-tailored membranes of PVC-coated polyester, the roof tissue is durable enough to withstand 1,000kg of weight per square decimeter.

A small green flame hissed from the blackness a decimeter below his eyes, and his voice took on a note of irritation, as though his patience were about to be exhausted.

They concluded that one cubic decimeter of water at its maximum density was equal to 99.9265% of the target mass of the provisional kilogram standard made four years earlier.

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.

Of this rock here is a solid decimeter; let us get at its weight, and we shall have the key which will unlock the problem of the whole weight of Gallia.

It has been calculated that between Tabatinga on the Brazilian frontier, and the source of this huge body of water, the difference of level does not exceed a decimeter in each league.

At a current density of 1 Amp per square decimeter, in 0.5 mol/liter of sulfuric acid and thiourea a surface layer of nickel will be converted to nickel hydride.

'Het ziet er hier heel akelig uit,' zei Angelina die een paar decimeter boven mijn hoofd zweefde.

A decimetre (American spelling: decimeter, symbol dm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one tenth of a metre, (or ten centimetres) the SI base unit of length.

Hij bleef op drie decimeter afstand staan, bestudeerde me even, en zei: 'U bent Beowulf Shaeffer, voormalig eerste piloot van de Na-kamura Lijnen.'

Length The kilometre, metre, decimetre, centimetre, millimetre, and smaller are common.

That definition is no longer used and the litre is now defined as one cubic decimetre, although traditionally both synonyms are recognized.

Everyday quantities of liquids are often measured in units of a litre, symbol l, which is the volume occupied by a cubic decimetre.

The original decimetre length was 44.344 lignes, which was revised in 1798 to 44.3296 lignes.

Plastics are subject to an overall migration limit of 10 milligrams per square decimetre of plastic surface area or per kilogram of food.

The litre was introduced in France in 1795 as one of the new "republican units of measurement" and defined as one cubic decimetre.

The Blue Lias comprises decimetre scale alternations of argillaceous limestone and mudstone.

One litre is the volume of one cubic decimetre, that is a cube of 10 x 10 x 10 centimetre.

The non-SI unit for volume, the litre, is defined as one cubic decimetre (other than between 1901 and 1964 where there was a slight difference between the two).

The screen detached itself, still showing the view outside, and floated up the car wall until the decimetre of space its thickness had occupied in the skin of the vehicle was revealed.

Ramme fell back to fifth while Huszagh and Bretting finished separated by "[o]nly a decimetre".

A provisional kilogram standard was made and work was commissioned to determine precisely how massive a cubic decimetre (later to be defined as equal to one litre) of water was.

This modern chain is a static cord (thin rope), 50 metres long, marked with a small tag at each metre, and also marked in the first metre every decimetre.

Semidirectional quadripole antennas mounted on the solar panels provided routine telemetry and telecommand contact with Earth during the mission, on a circularly-polarized decimetre radio band.

Major dimensions (e.g., grid lines on drawings, distances between wall centres or surfaces, widths of shelves and kitchen components) are multiples of 100 mm, i.e. one decimetre.

The channel features uncensored Canadian stand-up and sketch comedy and promises to keep America informed about Canadian culture, as they have been "for over a quarter of a decimetre."

A litre is defined as a special name for a cubic decimetre or 10 centimetres x 10 centimetres x 10 centimetres, (1 L 1 dm 1000 cm).

In Geotechnical engineering the term asperity is mostly used for unevenness (roughness) of the surface of a discontinuity, grain, or particle with heights in the range from approximately 0.1 mm to many decimetre.

Within these packets, there are commonly three scales of alternation between LDO and the regionally dominant sediment type of foraminifer-nannofossil ooze: at the sub-millimetre, the millimetre to centimetre, and the decimetre scale.

On a decimetre scale there is an alternation between beds of unlaminated nannofossil ooze and subordinate quantities of laminated diatom ooze and/or partly bioturbated diatom ooze, with fragmented mats.

A decimetre (American spelling: decimeter, symbol dm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one tenth of a metre, (or ten centimetres) the SI base unit of length.

In 1964, at the 12th CGPM conference, the original definition was reverted to, and thus the litre was once again defined in exact relation to the metre, as another name for the cubic decimetre, that is, exactly 1 dm.