Definition of "decameter" []

• A metric unit of length equal to 10 meters. (noun)

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• "Those are meter -- no, decameter antennas -- judging by their size."
• "The scientists on Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's many moons, now thought that they could predict the onset of a decameter storm; their accuracy was about as good as a weather forecaster's of the early"
• "The decameter outbursts that sometimes made Jupiter the most powerful radio source in the whole sky had been discovered back in the 1950s, to the utter astonishment of the astronomers."