Etymology

hebdometre

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Today it means: A unit of length equal to 10⁷ metres. Full definition →

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The story

From hebdo- + metre. Proposed by Rudolf Clausius in the 1880s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.