Tony Smith wrote:

>>>Wot, no love for decimetre & decametre either?
>>
>>We have them in Italy too :)
> 
> You poor souls!  I figured there was one for 100 metres as well - and tada -
> the hectometre. (Obvious in hindsight.)

"Centimetro" is 1/100 of meter and is widespread,
"decimetro" is 1/10 and is less used, so are "ettometro" (100 meters) 
and "decametro" (10meters) but we learn them at school or at least we did :)

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