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Definition of Decalitre
1. Noun. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
Generic synonyms: Metric Capacity Unit
Terms within: Cubic Decimeter, Cubic Decimetre, L, Liter, Litre
Group relationships: Hectoliter, Hectolitre, Hl
Definition of Decalitre
1. Noun. Ten litres. Symbol: dal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decalitre
Literary usage of Decalitre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants', Students' and Clerks' Manual by James Robinson (1856)
"... at 5 francs per decalitre, duty 40 per cent. Allowing on all but the champagne,
a deduction of 2 per cent, for leakage, and 5 per cent, on the champagne ..."
2. International Exchanges: Letter to the Honorable Hannibal Hamlin by Hannibal Hamlin, Alexandre Vattemare, William Wilberforce Mann (1853)
"15 litres is a quantity more promptly apprehended, and more easily expressed by
an ignorant man, than 1 decalitre and n half. The first expression too would ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"The decalitre Ten litres. The litre One litre. The decilitre One-tenth of a litre.
The centilitre One hundredth of n litre. The litre, which is used as the ..."
4. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"decalitre = 10 Litres . . = 2-19941 C, Gals. = 2-19941 ., Gib. ... decalitre
Hectolitre Kilolitre . WINCHESTER INTO METRIC Dry - 5-50590 ..."
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