tenthmeter

English

Alternative forms

• tenthmetre

Etymology

tenth +‎ meter

Noun

tenthmeter (plural tenthmeters)

1. (physics, archaic) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 10¹⁰ of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tenthmeter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• tenthmetre