decimeter
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Alt. of Decimetre
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Later Soviet interplanetary probes used redundant radio systems, transmitting telemetry by PCM on a decimeter band and PPM on a centimeter band.
The commission charged with determining the mass of a cubic decimeter of water originally comprised Lavoisier and Haüy but their work was finished by Louis Lefèvre Gineau and Giovanni Fabbroni.
The kilogram is 1000 grams (g), first defined in 1795 as one cubic decimeter of water at the melting point of ice.
This has been enhanced by the availability of low-cost mapping-grade GPS units with decimeter accuracy in real time.