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deka

How to use deka in a sentence. Live example sentences for deka pulled from indexed public discussions.

Editorial note

Deci versus deca (and now deka, which appears to also be a legit spelling).

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Quick take

Deci versus deca (and now deka, which appears to also be a legit spelling).

Example sentences

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Deci versus deca (and now deka, which appears to also be a legit spelling).

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) CTO/CPO Deka (lol this guy is a joke look for him at 1:15 in the video...

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Technically you could do it all on kilo, hecto, deka, deci, milli, micro moles...

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The oil sheikh with dozens of supercars is what drives the mega rich to aspire to own two supercars and the deka rich to fret about maybe buying their first one.

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I always admired how simple, yet clever the SI prefix scheme is: use Roman numerals for sub-units (centi-, mili-), and Greek numerals for multiplies (deka-, hecto-, kilo-).

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Also in Croatia in everyday life people will far more often use decagrams (10g), shorten colloquially as 'deka', than grams - which leads to even more confusion because the SI abbreviation for decagrams is dag, not dg (which is decigram, 0.1g), and it's often mixed - even some primary school books had these typos.

Proper noun examples

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Deka- and hectoyears are equal to common decades and centuries, and megayears would be relevant for geology and astronomy etc.

2

I would say his industrial design experience at Segway (and Deka) was more relevant to Apple.

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I resent the fact that communists created a history where terms like Lesser Megamurderer and Deka-Megamurderer[1] (sic) are simply factual descriptions, rather than works of dark fiction.

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How do you use deka in a sentence?

Deci versus deca (and now deka, which appears to also be a legit spelling).