Sentence examples for decimetre from inspiring English sources

Litre (l), also spelled liter, unit of volume in the metric system, equal to one cubic decimetre (0.001 cubic metre).

In the British system, units of dry and liquid capacity are the same, while in the United States they differ; the liquid and dry pint in Britain both equal 0.568 cubic decimetre, while the U.S. liquid pint is 0.473 cubic decimetre, and the U.S. dry pint is 0.551 cubic decimetre.

The litre was defined as the volume equivalent to the volume of a cube, each side of which had a length of 1 decimetre, or 10 centimetres.

The units line up in logical rows and columns: micrometre, millimetre, centimetre, decimetre, metre, kilometre, and so on.