decametre

See also: décamètre and deca-metre

English

Alternative forms

• (US) dekameter (recommended by NIST), decameter

Etymology

Borrowed from French décamètre. Equivalent to deca- +‎ metre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkəmiːtə(ɹ)/

Noun

decametre (plural decametres)

1. (metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10¹ metres. Symbol: dam
2. (prosody) A line in a poem having ten metrical feet.
3. (prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has ten feet.

Synonyms

• dam

Translations

the length of 10 metres

• Belarusian: дэкаметр m (dekamjetr)
• Bengali: ডেকামিটার (ḍekamiṭar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十米 (zh) (shímǐ), 公丈 (zh) (gōngzhàng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: decameter (nl) m
• Finnish: dekametri (fi)
• French: décamètre (fr) m
• Galician: decámetro (gl)
• Georgian: დექამეტრი (dekameṭri)
• German: Dekameter (de) m
• Greek: δεκάμετρο (el) n (dekámetro) (dekámetro)
• Hindi: डेकामीटर (ḍekāmīṭar)
• Interlingua: decametro
• Italian: decametro (it) m
• Japanese: デカメートル
• Kannada: ದೆಕಾಮೀಟರು (dekāmīṭaru)
• Khmer: ដេកាម៉ែត្រ (deekaa maet)
• Korean: 데카미터 (dekamiteo)
• Lao: ເດກາແມັດ (lo) (dē kā mæt), ເດກາເມັດ (dē kā met)
• Lü: ᦵᦡᦂᦱᦙᦶᧆ (ḋek̇aamaed), ᦵᦡᦂᦱᦙᦵᧆ (ḋek̇aamed)
• Macedonian: декаметар m (dekametar)
• Malay: dekameter
• Malayalam: ഡെകാമിറ്റർ (ḍekāmiṟṟaṟ)
• Polish: dekametr (pl) m
• Portuguese: decâmetro (pt) m
• Russian: декаме́тр (ru) m (dekamétr)
• Shan: ၻေၵၢမဵတ
• Spanish: decámetro (es) m
• Swedish: dekameter (sv) c
• Tagalog: dekametro
• Telugu: డెకామీటరు (ḍekāmīṭaru)
• Thai: เดคาเมตร (th)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đêcamet, đê-ca-mét, đề-ca-mét

Anagrams

• decameter