decimate

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In building materials and construction, we should have to abandon the board measure and substitute square decimeters, centares or ares.

From Time Magazine Archive

Books from 2½ to 3½ decimeters in height have 3 prefixed to the book number, and are found on the bottom shelf of each range.

From A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library by Dewey, Melvil

The meter is sub-divided into decimeters, centimeters and millimeters; 1,000 millimeters equal one meter; the millimeter is again divided into 10ths and the 10ths into 100ths of a millimeter, which could be continued indefinitely.

From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by Playtner, H. R.

The section of the midship beam is 70 square decimeters, and that of the exhaust port is 4.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

This work should preferably be done while the plants are of the proper height and the green shoots easily broken off, and not after the trees have exceeded the height limit by several decimeters.

From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various