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From hebdo- + metre. Proposed by Rudolf Clausius in the 1880s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A unit of length equal to 10⁷ metres. Full definition →
From hebdo- + metre. Proposed by Rudolf Clausius in the 1880s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.