Each space of 1 decimetre is painted alternately red or blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Montessori Method] Reference

Of course, they could get over this difficulty if they would drop these names "decimetre" and "millimetre" altogether, and use other terms, new words altogether, having no relation to metre; each of these, then, would be a unit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

Units: cubic cm (cm3) cubic ft (cu ft; ft3) 1 ft3 = 28.3 dm3 cubic decimetre (dm3) cubic yd (cu yd; yd3) 35.31 ft3 = 1 m3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

In an enclosed space that is free from dust, these black spots may extend over areas of the order of one square decimetre, and remain for several months (Dewar).    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture] Reference

It thus became possible to study the cathode rays, and also the fluorescence they caused, outside the discharge tube and Lenard concluded from the experiments that he then did that the cathode rays were propagated through the air for distances of the order of a decimetre and that they travel in a vacuum for several metres without being weakened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philipp Lenard - Biography] Reference

The first rod is a metre long, and the last a decimetre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Montessori Method] Reference

The intervening rods decrease, from first to last, 1 decimetre each.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Montessori Method] Reference

For the fishing the natives make a hole in the ice, a decimetre in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

They divide the decimetre into another ten parts and call it a centimetre; you see they retain the metre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

Then they divide that up again into their decimetre, centimetre, millilitre, decalitre, hectolitre, and a kilolitre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

All ore-bearing mineralization generally occurs as decimetre bands disseminated along the entire width of the syenite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

They do not give another name to this division, but they keep that word metre, and add to it another two syllable word, a decimetre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

The shortest of these rods corresponds to a decimetre, the longest to a metre, while the intervening rods are divided into sections a decimetre in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Montessori Method] Reference

They do not take and form a cubic box of a metre in order to get the unit of capacity, but they go down to the decimetre and take that as a new unit to form their box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British and the Metric Systems] Reference

Exact experiments, made by LEFÈVRE-GINEAU, with instruments constructed by FORTIN, shewed the weight of the cubic decimetre of distilled water, at the point of the greatest condensation to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference

It is not necessary to send large samples of the characteristics which distinguish them as regards their interior structure and especially for the dicotyledonous woods with concentric layers; it is best, on the contrary, to break them neatly with the hammer and to reduce them about 1 decimetre cube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology] Reference

Units: cubic cm (cm³) cubic ft (cu ft; ft³) 1 ft³ = 28.32 dm³ cubic decimetre (dm³) cubic yd (cu yd; yd³) 1 yd³ = 0.7646 m³ cubic m (m³) 1728 in³ = 1 ft³.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Appendices] Reference

0. 9-.95 kg/cubic decimetre.    From Wordnik.com.  [18. Supplies and Transport] Reference

10 stitches/decimetre or ribbon bordered 4 sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [18. Supplies and Transport] Reference