A 'decimetre' (
American spelling: 'decimeter', symbol 'dm') is a
unit of
length in the
metric system, equal to one tenth of a
metre, the current
SI base unit of length. It can be written in
scientific notations as 100×10
-3 m (engineering notation) or 1 E-1 m (exponential notation) — meaning 100 × 1
mm or 1 m / 10 respectively. The ''c'' is pronounced as /s/, unlike in decametre.
nanometre <<<
micrometre <<<
millimetre <
centimetre <
decimetre <
metre <
decametre <
hectometre <
kilometre
See also
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SI
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SI prefix
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deci-
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Metric system
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1 E-1 m and
Orders of magnitude (length)
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Conversion of units, for comparison with other units of length