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A decimeter.
Inch, foot, meter, decimeter.
It is shorter, a decimeter is 10cm and a meter is 100cm
dekameter = 10 meters, decimeter = one-tenth of a meter, so they differ by a factor of 100.
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A decimeter is most definitely shorter than half of a foot. A decimeter is .1 centimeter and there are 15.24 centimeters in 6 inches which is half of a foot.
The mile, kilometer, dekameter
No. One dekameter (or decimeter) is equal to ten meters.
One dam (dekameter) equals 10 meters. A decimeter (latin, rather than greek prefix) is 1/10th of a meter.
The basic prefices which end in i: milli, centi, deci are smaller than the unit. deka, hecto and kilo, all bigger, do not end in i.