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stere

 
Dictionary: stere   (stîr) pronunciation
n. (Abbr. s)
A unit of volume equal to one cubic meter.

[French stère, from Greek stereos, solid, hard.]


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volume (Metric) For firewood, 1 m3 (35.315~ ft3); defined in France in 1798 and retained in modern international conventions, but now an SI-deprecated unit except for domestic use.

 
 

 

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