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- noun Plural form of
hectometer .
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Hauled along by a network of mag-beams converging from a score of space tugs came the Conference Disk, two hectometers in diameter and a decameter thick at its hub.
The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven
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Ten meters make one decameter; ten decameters make one hectometer; ten hectometers make one kilometer, and ten kilometers make one myriameter.
The Metric System 1916
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