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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A metric unit of volume equal to one-tenth (10-1) of a liter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the metric system, a measure of capacity equal to one tenth of a liter, or 3.52 English fluidounces, or 3.38 United States fluidounces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US spelling of decilitre.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter

Etymologies

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deci- +‎ liter

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