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  • noun British Alternative spelling of decagram.

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  • When they get the gramme then they have decigramme, centigramme, milligramme, decagramme, hectogramme, and kilogramme.

    The British and the Metric Systems 1907

  • 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.'

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2 1991

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