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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

デカ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: deka

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Deka/ˈdɛk.ə/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"デカリットルは10リットルに相当します。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As combining form
  1. 1

    A prefix used in the metric system to denote a factor of ten (10^1).

    "A dekalitre is equal to ten litres of liquid."
As noun
  1. 1

    A prefix variant (also deca-) used in various scientific and numerical contexts to signify a multiple of ten.

    "The prefix deka- helps scale base units systematically in scientific nomenclature."
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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Ancient Greek word deka, meaning 'ten'. It entered scientific terminology primarily through the adoption of the metric system in late 18th-century France, later being standardized in international units of measurement.

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