Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metric unit of mass equal to 10 grams.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the metric System, a weight of 10 grams, equal to 154.32349 grains. It is 0.353 ounce avoirdupois, or 0.3215 ounce troy. Also
dekagram .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun metrology An
SI unit of mass equal to 101grams . - noun A ten pointed star.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 10 grams
Etymologies
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Examples
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What about the gorgeous symmetry of a well executed hexadecagon, or the quirky lurch of the isotoxal decagram.
Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something. 2010
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None of our kids would even know an isotoxal decagram if they tripped over it.
Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something. 2010
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Five nickels in a row will give the length of the decimeter, and two of them will weigh a decagram.
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Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring. decagram n.
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In short (excuse the pun), for one reason or another users in the UK would be better served by a better dictionary of abbreviations than this; US users should be alerted to the fact that the text is British, unedited for American spelling: for ` decagramme, decalitre, decametre 'read ` decagram, decaliter, decameter.'
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