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The stadion (plural stadia, Greek: στάδιον; latinized as stadium), also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, consisting of 600 AncientFurlong (1,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
measuring chain in the 1620s led to the introduction of an intermediate unit of length, the chain of 22 yards, being equal to four rods, and to one-tenth ofStadiametric rangefinding (965 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
with a telescopic instrument. The term stadia comes from a Greek unit of length Stadion (equal to 600 Greek feet, pous) which was the typical length ofHeptastadion (664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is Greek for "seven stadia"— hepta meaning seven, and a stadion being a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m (590 ft)). Overall it was moreSchoenus (419 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
i͗trw, lit. "river-measure") was an ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman unit of length and area based on the knotted cords first used in Egyptian surveyingByzantine units of measurement (1,030 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(δάκτυλος) 1⁄16 0.0195 also called monas (μονάς), "unit", as the smallest unit of length. Palm palaistḗ (παλαιστή) anticheir (αντιχειρ) 1⁄4 0.0787 Half-pous1799 (2,965 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
at Wiesloch. December 10 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. December 14 – George Washington, first President of the United StatesLighthouse of Alexandria (3,482 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
miles), which was called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadion was a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m). The etymology of "Pharos"Earth radius (4,111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
polar radius is explicitly required.: 4 The nominal radius serves as a unit of length for astronomy. (The notation is defined such that it can be easily generalizedEnglish units (4,240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
75 cubic feet of dry stone, derived from the more commonly known perch, a unit of length equal to 16.5 feet. Cord 128 cubic feet of firewood, a stack of firewoodHistory of geodesy (12,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and England to procure instruments and standards of measurement. The unit of length to which all distances measured by the Survey of the Coast — which becameTimeline of scientific discoveries (10,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
opposed to a place-value system). 2650 BC: The oldest extant record of a unit of length, the cubit-rod ruler, is from Nippur. 2600 BC: The oldest attested evidenceApproximations of π (11,686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of less than one Planck length (at 1.6162×10−35 meters, the shortest unit of length expected to be directly measurable) using π expressed to just 62 decimal