The measurements for the new window frame were off by one decimeter, so the new window did not properly fit inside it.    From LearnThat.org. 

The unit of capacity, the liter, is a cubic decimeter, which is a little larger than the American liquid quart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metric System] Reference

A decimeter is one-tenth of that, namely, 3.937 inches; and a decameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference

The wolfman had claws nearly a decimeter long, on both his hands and his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [An East Wind Coming]

The meter is too small to make a decent sized decimeter, which happens to be less than 4 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Five nickels in a row will give the length of the decimeter, and two of them will weigh a decagram.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader] Reference

Dobryna, who was directed to cut out of the solid rock the cubic decimeter required by the professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet] Reference

We may estimate it at 1/3 or 1/4 of an ohm for polar surfaces one decimeter square, separated by a distance of five centimeters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference

Metric Lengths. -- 10 millimeters 1 centimeter, 10 centimeters 1 decimeter, 10 decimeters 1 meter, 10 meters 1 dekameter, 10 dekameters 1 hektometer, 10 hektometers 1 kilometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

It was a simple matter to have the soil of the road sink a decimeter directly under his foot, and to have a puddle of water form there, extending a full two meters on in front of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enjoyment] Reference

Although the number of plant species in the Arctic is low in general, individual communities of small arctic plants have a diversity similar to or higher than those of boreal and temperate zones: there can be up to 25 species per square decimeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic] Reference

The distances between the test masses were in the decimeter range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogs de Ciência] Reference

A sheet of paper, size 1 decimeter, seen at 5.70 meters, represents the same magnitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference

Professor Rosette requested that one of the men might be ordered to cut him a cubic decimeter out of the solid substance of Gallia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space] Reference

But officers were unable to write citations because they didn't have a decimeter, which calculates how much noise is being created.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts: News] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space] Reference

In the descending scale, the meter is divided into ten decimeters, the decimeter into ten centimeters, and the centimeter into ten millimeters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metric System] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet] Reference

A lath was then cut of this exact length and given to the engineer of the Dobryna, who was directed to cut out of the solid rock the cubic decimeter required by the professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet] Reference

But, if you want sub-decimeter level, millimeter level, for all the applications that I mentioned, to build infrastructure, we need carrier phase and to use carrier-phase processing, for all the technical reasons that we know, we need dual and triple and new types of frequencies to deal with, for example, multipath.    From Wordnik.com.  [GPS World] Reference

M decameter dam decimeter dm hectometer hm centimeter cm kilometer km millimeter mm megameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meter] Reference

(watts/1000 X energy prices)/(square decimeters of drying space) = cost per hour per square decimeter of drying area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Is there warming of the top decimeter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hansen and the "Destruction of Creation" « Climate Audit] Reference

One liter is in one decimeter cubed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

A cubic decimeter of the material of the comet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet] Reference

1 decimeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

1 square decimeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

GRAM, g, (1x10-3kg) and the cubic decimeter (dm.    From Wordnik.com.  [LearnHub Activities] Reference

Length and Surface. milimetro = millimeter (.0394 inch). centimetro = centimeter (.3937 inch). decimetro = decimeter (3.937 inches). metro = meter (39.37 inches). dekametro = dekameter (393.7 inches). hektometro = hektometer (328 feet 1 inch). kilometro = kilometer (3280 feet 10 inches; .62137 mile). kvadrata metro = square meter (1550 square inches). hektaro = hektare (2.471 acres).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference