How to Use decimeter in a Sentence

decimeter

noun

• The habitat density was as high as 4,300 organisms per square decimeter, roughly a hand-sized patch of rock.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
• The second layer records the visual features of the road surfaces to improve mapping resolution to the decimeter level.
  — Shaoshan Liu, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2020
• The third layer, also saved at decimeter resolution, records the visual features of other parts of the environment—such as signs, buildings, trees, fences, and light poles.
  — Shaoshan Liu, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2020
• Those large chunks, of centimeter-to-decimeter sizes, had never been observed before Deep Impact’s rendezvous with Hartley 2.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
• Over millions of years, metals in the surrounding seawater form coatings of iron and manganese oxides, with thicknesses ranging from a few millimeters to a few decimeters, depending on the age of the seamounts.
  — Leonardo MacElloni, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• The researchers fabricated the actuators using a 2D molding process that can manufacture them at millimeter, centimeter, and decimeter scales.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2025
• Rather than using vehicles outfitted with lidar units to provide map data, PerceptIn enhances existing digital maps with visual information to achieve decimeter-level accuracy.
  — Shaoshan Liu, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2020
• Using a combination of camera images and data from inertial measurement units (in a technique called visual inertial odometry), the vehicle's computer further improves the accuracy, fixing position down to the decimeter level.
  — Shaoshan Liu, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2020