Decameter

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Decameter \Dec"a*me`ter\, Decametre \Dec"a*me`tre\, n. [F.
     d['e]cam[`e]tre; Gr. de`ka ten + m[`e]tre. See {Meter}.]
     A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal
     to about 393.7 inches.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  decameter
       n : a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: {dekameter},
            {decametre}, {dekametre}, {dam}, {dkm}]