decametre
See also: décamètre and deca-metre
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Borrowed from French décamètre. Equivalent to deca- + metre.
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decametre (plural decametres)
- (metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 101 metres. Symbol: dam
- (prosody) A line in a poem having ten metrical feet.
- (prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has ten feet.
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the length of 10 metres
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