Meanings of decimeter in English

Five nickels in a row will give the length of the decimeter, and two of them will weigh a decagram.

From its mass of greenery, huge globular fruit stood out, a decimeter wide and furnished on the outside with creases that assumed a hexangular pattern.

A decimeter is one-tenth of that, namely, 3.937 inches; and a decameter 39.37, or ten times the meter, and so on.

Lisa measured a couple of decimeters from her top lip with her hand.

He was standing only a few decimeters from the rat and realized that he was exactly the same height as she.

The second subgenus gave us some Didactylus specimens three to four decimeters long, streaked with yellow, their heads having a phantasmagoric appearance.