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Micrometre (937 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(American English), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equalling 1×10−6 metre (SI

Foot (unit) (4,536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The foot (standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is

Millimetre (471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spelling) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length. Therefore

Metre (11,331 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined

Centimetre (424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spelling) or centimeter (American spelling), with SI symbol cm, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one hundredth of

Stadion (unit) (532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

latinized as stadium), also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, consisting of 600 Ancient Greek feet (podes). Its exact length is unknown

Nanometre (431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Measures; SI symbol: nm), or nanometer (American spelling), is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one billionth (short

Fathom (1,955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems equal to 6 feet (1.8288 m), used especially for measuring the depth of water

Hand (unit) (1,491 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

on a human hand General information Unit system Imperial/US units Unit of Length Symbol h, hh Conversions 1 h in ... ... is equal to ... Imperial/US

Yard (5,243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches.

Thousandth of an inch (1,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou

Ancient Roman units of measurement (1,887 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The units of measurement of ancient Rome were generally consistent and well documented. The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural:

Markus Persson (5,325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Markus Alexej Persson (/ˈpɪərsən/ PEER-sən, Swedish: [ˈmǎrːkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ; born 1 June 1979), also known as "Notch", is a Swedish video game programmer

Ken (unit) (737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The ken (間) is a traditional Japanese unit of length, equal to six Japanese feet (shaku). The exact value has varied over

Verst (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A verst (Russian: верста, versta) is an obsolete Russian unit of length defined as 500 sazhen. This makes a verst equal to 1.0668 kilometres (3,500 feet)

Atomic units (2,367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

order of ⁠ 1 a 0 {\displaystyle 1a_{0}} ⁠ (one Bohr radius, the atomic unit of length). An additional benefit of expressing quantities using atomic units

Decimetre (131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The decimetre (or decimeter in American English; symbol: dm), is a unit of length in the International System of Units, equal to one tenth of a metre

Spanish units of measurement (1,032 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vara (meaning "rod" or "pole", abbreviation: var) is an old Spanish unit of length. Varas are a surveying unit that appear in many deeds in the southern

Chinese units of measurement (1,683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

word shēng. Units of volume can also be obtained from any standard unit of length using the prefix 立方 lìfāng ("cubic"), as in 立方米 lìfāng mǐ for one cubic

Tridecagon (702 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in GeoGebra a = 0.478631328575115 [ unit of length ] {\displaystyle a=0.478631328575115\;[{\text{unit of length}}]} Side length of the tridecagon a target

Inch (3,160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to ⁠1/36⁠ yard

Span (unit) (752 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

A span is the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. In ancient times, a span was considered to

Smoot (1,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The smoot /ˈsmuːt/ is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R. Smoot, who in

Gunter's chain (1,392 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ribbon tape (a form of tape measure), its legacy was a new statutory unit of length called the chain, equal to 22 yards (66 feet) of 100 links. This unit

Femtometre (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Greek: μέτρον, romanized: metrοn, lit. 'unit of measurement') is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10−15 metres, which

Cun (unit) (318 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

|mi=[tsʰwə̂n]), often glossed as the Chinese inch, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle

Arpent (692 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

arpent (French pronunciation: [aʁpɑ̃], sometimes called arpen) is a unit of length and a unit of area. It is a pre-metric French unit based on the Roman

Cubit (2,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was primarily associated with the Sumerians

Shaku (unit) (727 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

free dictionary. Shaku (Japanese: 尺) or Japanese foot is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese chi, originally based upon the

City block (1,139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

arrangements. By extension, the word "block" is an important informal unit of length equal to the distance between two streets of a street grid. In most

Linear density (897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

density is the measure of a quantity of any characteristic value per unit of length. Linear mass density (titer in textile engineering, the amount of mass

Chain (unit) (2,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The chain (abbreviated ch) is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards), used in both the US customary and Imperial unit systems. It is subdivided into

Proportion (architecture) (505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

These relationships are often governed by multiples of a standard unit of length known as a "module". Proportion in architecture was discussed by Vitruvius

Logarithmic scale (1,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distance corresponds to the same increment, on a logarithmic scale each unit of length is a multiple of some base value raised to a power, and corresponds

Furlong (1,778 words) [view diff] exact 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 of

Chi (unit) (735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The chi (Tongyong Pinyin chih) is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Although it is often translated as the "Chinese foot", its length was originally

List of unusual units of measurement (11,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

million base pairs in humans on average. Horizontal pitch (HP) is a unit of length defined by the Eurocard printed circuit board standard used to measure

Link (unit) (846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

abbreviated as "l.", "li." or "lnk."), sometimes called a Gunter’s link, is a unit of length formerly used in many English-speaking countries. In US customary units

Li (unit) (1,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

also another li (Traditional: 釐, Simplified: 厘, lí) that indicates a unit of length 1⁄1000 of a chi, but it is used much less commonly. This li is used

Gal (unit) (499 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

derived unit, defined in terms of the centimeter–gram–second (CGS) base unit of length, the centimeter, and the second, which is the base unit of time in both

Hectometre (232 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

symbol: hm), spelt hectometer in American and Philippine English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one hundred metres

Ligne (524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The ligne (pronounced [liɲ] ), or line or Paris line, is a historic unit of length used in France and elsewhere prior to the adoption of the metric system

Stadion (running race) (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

which became the English "stadium". The race also gave its name to the unit of length, the stadion. There were other types of running events, but the stadion

Toise (558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Former unit of length

ISO 2848 (289 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Basic module (metric) Unit system ISO 21723:2019 Unit of Length Symbol M Conversions 1 M in ... ... is equal to ... millimeter 100 mm decimeter

Centi- (196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used in combination with the unit metre to form centimetre, a common unit of length. Example A honey bee is about 1.3 centimetres long. Percent Commission

History of the metre (15,113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ancien Régime, including the traditional units of measure. As a base unit of length, many scientists had favoured the seconds pendulum (a pendulum with

Unit of measurement (3,045 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

example, a length is a physical quantity. The metre (symbol m) is a unit of length that represents a definite predetermined length. For instance, when

History of measurement (2,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

yards (~5.03 m) each. The introduction of the yard (0.9144 m) as a unit of length came later, but its origin is not definitely known. Some believe the

Centimetre–gram–second system of units (3,501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the second as the unit of time. All

System of units of measurement (2,455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

derived units by multiplying by powers of ten. For example, where the unit of length is the metre; a distance of 1 metre is 1,000 millimetres, or 0.001 kilometres

Pole (368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(electronics) Pole, in contact terminology of a switch Pole (unit of length), or perch or rod, a unit of length of various historical definitions Pole, either end

Au (688 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and other fields Ångström unit, a unit of length equal to 10−10 m or 0.1 nanometre. Astronomical unit, a unit of length used in planetary systems astronomy

Cambodian units of measurement (442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a unit of length, used during the 18th–20th century in Cambodia. It is equivalent to 12 thneap or 25 centimetres (9.8 in). The thneap is a unit of length

Scandinavian mile (876 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mile (Norwegian and Swedish: mil, [miːl], Finnish: peninkulma) is a unit of length common in Norway and Sweden, to a lesser extent in Finland, but not

Vietnamese units of measurement (1,936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

measurement traditionally used in Vietnam until metrication. The base unit of length is the thước (chữ Nôm: 𡱩; lit. "ruler") or xích (chữ Hán: 尺). Some

Cable length (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of a ship's cable. General information Unit system Imperial/US units Unit of Length Conversions 1 cable length in ... ... is equal to ... Imperial/US

In (253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

abbreviated IN .in, the internet top-level domain of India Inch (in), a unit of length Indium, symbol In, a chemical element Intelligent Network, a telecommunication

Line (unit) (805 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The line (abbreviated L or l or ‴ or lin.) was a small English unit of length, variously reckoned as 1⁄10, 1⁄12, 1⁄16, or 1⁄40 of an inch. It was not included

Zhàng (186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The zhang (Chinese: 丈) is a customary Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (Chinese feet). Its value varied over time and place with different values

Bohr radius (1,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

than the reduced mass, as mentioned above). As such, it became the unit of length in atomic units. In Schrödinger's quantum-mechanical theory of the hydrogen

Cuerda (607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

refers to the unit of area measurement. In Guatemala, cuerda is both a unit of length measurement as well as of area measurement. As a unit of area measurement

CU (373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

e-mail shorthand Civil union, type of legal partnership Cubit, ancient unit of length CU (store), a chain of South Korean convenience stores Customs union

My (158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

language (ISO 639 alpha-2) Megalithic Yard, a hypothesised, prehistoric unit of length Million years MyTV (disambiguation) μ ("mu"), a letter of the Greek

Metric typographic units (439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Metric Didot Point Unit system SI based typographic unit Unit of length Symbol nd Conversions 1 nd in ... ... is equal to ... millimeters 0.375 mm

Metric system (4,724 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

factors of powers of ten. The unit of time should be the second; the unit of length should be either the metre or a decimal multiple of it; and the unit

Nm (343 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nuclear medicine, a medical imaging modality Nanometer (nm), an SI unit of length, equal to 10−9 m (a thousand-millionth of a meter) Nanomolar (nM), in

Digit (unit) (757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

originally based on the breadth of a human finger. It was a fundamental unit of length in the Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Roman

Volume (2,690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the volume occupies three dimensions, if the metre (m) is chosen as a unit of length, the corresponding unit of volume is the cubic metre (m3). The cubic

Megalithic yard (1,842 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The megalithic yard is a hypothetical ancient unit of length equal to about 2.72 feet (0.83 m). Some researchers believe it was used in the construction

League (198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

code, often referred to as just "league" League (unit), traditional unit of length of three miles or an hour's walk League (non-profit), a program for

Finger (unit) (459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Noah Webster): "nearly an inch." Finger is also the name of a longer unit of length, used historically in cloth measurement, to mean one eighth of a yard

League (198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

code, often referred to as just "league" League (unit), traditional unit of length of three miles or an hour's walk League (non-profit), a program for

Uncia (unit) (101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The uncia (plural: unciae, lit. "a twelfth") was a Roman unit of length, weight, and volume. It survived as the Byzantine liquid ounce (Greek: οὐγγία,

Square root of 2 (5,701 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of 2 is the length of a diagonal across a square with sides of one unit of length; this follows from the Pythagorean theorem. It was probably the first

Pica (typography) (568 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

scale (on the bottom) General information Unit system Typographic unit Unit of Length Conversions 1 pica in ... ... is equal to ... typographic units 12 points

Natural units (1,624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

York, NY: Freeman. ISBN 978-0-7167-0344-0. "2018 CODATA Value: atomic unit of length". The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty. NIST. Retrieved

Wheelbase (1,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

railway lines are designed to take a predetermined maximum load per unit of length (tonnes per meter, or pounds per foot), the rail vehicles' wheelbase

Twip (365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

twip Unit system Typographic units Unit of Length Conversions 1 twip in ... ... is equal to ... Typographic units ⁠1/20⁠ points Imperial/US units

Stadiametric rangefinding (967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distances 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

Yojana (840 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hindu scriptures, Paramāṇu is the fundamental particle and smallest unit of length. The length of the yojana varies depending on the different standards

Suns (98 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

massive balls of plasma Sun (unit), or cun, a traditional Chinese unit of length An abbreviation for solar masses, solar radii, solar luminosities, or

Unit of time (870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of time, but a unit of length of about 9.5 petametres (9454254955488 km). Note: The parsec is not a unit of time, but a unit of length of about 30.9 trillion

Geographical mile (943 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The geographical mile is an international unit of length determined by 1 minute of arc (⁠1/60⁠ degree) along the Earth's equator. For the international

Litre (3,039 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for millimetre, a unit of length equal to one-thousandth of a metre "mil" for thousandth of an inch "mil", a Scandinavian unit of length equal to 10 kilometres

Palm (unit) (2,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The palm is an obsolete anthropic unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized. The same name is also

List of humorous units of measurement (4,768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

centimetres (1.215 in) that is used only humorously. The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but applicable to extremely short distances

Obsolete Finnish units of measurement (586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(fot), nominally the distance from the elbow to the fingertips; the unit of length used for measuring everyday lengths, and the base measure that all other

Nucleotide (3,305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(abbreviated "nt") is a common unit of length for single-stranded nucleic acids, similar to how base pair is a unit of length for double-stranded nucleic

Chi (288 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet Chi (length) (尺), a traditional unit of length, about ⅓ meter Chi (mythology) (螭), a dragon Chi (surname) (池, pinyin:

Arabic mile (549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Arabic, or Arabian mile (Arabic: الميل, al-mīl) was a historical Arabic unit of length. Its precise length is disputed, lying between 1,800 metres (5,900 ft)

AM (556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

classification Americium, symbol Am, a chemical element Attometre, a unit of length attomolar (aM), a unit of molar concentration Amplitude modulation,

Skein (183 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

end of a wagon axle, to which the wheel is mounted Skein (unit), a unit of length used by weavers and tailors Skein dubh, a Scottish knife Skein (fish)

1795 in France (892 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between France and Prussia. 7 April – France adopts the metre as the unit of length. 23 April – Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French

Kan (unit) (124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Korean unit of length; approximately two metres

Nicaraguan units of measurement (226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to 10,000 square varas or 6987.4 m2. (A vara was an obsolete Spanish unit of length equal to 0.8359 m.) One caballeria was equal to 64 manzanas. Several

Tachymeter (watch) (810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

miles, nautical miles, kilometres, metres etc.) as long as the same unit of length is used for all calculations. It can also be used to measure the frequency

History of the metric system (12,467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the metre. The basic units were taken from the natural world. The unit of length, the metre, was based on the dimensions of the Earth, and the unit of

BU (538 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

measured by a farinograph bu, a Japanese unit of length, equivalent to 3.03 millimetres bù (步), a Chinese unit of length, equivalent to 1.66 metres Bushel,

FM (380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

range Adobe FrameMaker, document processing software Femtometre (fm), a unit of length Femtomolar (fM), a unit of molar concentration Fermium, (Fm) a chemical

Step (unit) (149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

A step (Latin: gradus, pl. gradūs) was a Roman unit of length equal to 2½ Roman feet (pedes) or ½ Roman pace (passus). Following its standardization under

Palm (349 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(including a list of people with the name) Palm (unit), an obsolete unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm Palm branch, a symbol

Carucate (586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Farm-derived units of measurement: The rod is a historical unit of length equal to 5+1⁄2 yards. It may have originated from the typical length of a mediaeval

Paris inch (342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with" —The Ophthalmoscope (1864) The Paris inch or pouce is an archaic unit of length that, among other uses, was common for giving the measurement of lenses

Ell (1,143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

later replaced by the cloth-ell or "double ell". General information Unit of Length Conversions (imperial) 1 imp unit in ... ... is equal to ... Inch

Theorem of three moments (983 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

l'} the length of BC, by w and w ′ {\displaystyle w'} the weight per unit of length in these segments. Then the bending moments M A , M B , M C {\displaystyle

Atomic radii of the elements (data page) (863 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

unit of length here is the Bohr radius, which is the radius of a hydrogen atom. The Bohr radius is consequently known as the "atomic unit of length"

X unit (337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the software testing tools, see xUnit. The x unit (symbol xu) is a unit of length approximately equal to 0.1 pm (10−13 m). It is used to quote the wavelength

Shaftment (221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The shaftment is an obsolete unit of length defined since the 12th century as 6 inches, which nowadays is exactly 152.4 mm. A shaftment was traditionally

Arshin (length) (224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The arshin or arşın is an old Turkish and Russian unit of length (Ottoman Turkish: آرشين or آرشون) The Turkish "market arşın" was about 27 inches (690 mm)

Field of view (1,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

length, here the sensor size and f {\displaystyle f} are in the same unit of length, FOV is in radians. In microscopy, the field of view in high power (usually

Bamboo (unit) (112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

A bamboo is an obsolete unit of length in India and Myanmar. In India, the unit was fixed by the reforms of Akbar the Great (1556–1605) at approximately

Temperature gradient (475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Temperature difference per unit of length

Step (349 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a selo Edward Step (1855–1931), nature writer Step (unit), a Roman unit of length Step aerobics Step dance, a style Stepfamily, with a stepmother or stepfather

GB (489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

American glide bomb Ganglion blocker, a medication Gigabase (Gb), a unit of length for DNA Gilbert (unit) (Gb), a unit of magnetization named for English

Wa (unit) (292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Wa (Thai: วา [wāː], also waa or wah, abbreviated ว.) is a unit of length, equal to two metres (2 m) or four sok (ศอก.) Wa as a verb means to outstretch

N-body units (311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Quantity Expression Unit of length (R) 1 R = 1 M 2 ∑ i , j ≠ i N m i m j | r j → − r i → | {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{R}}={\frac {1}{M^{2}}}\sum _{i,j\neq

Ancient Arabic units of measurement (196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to 2 to 4 liters, depending on region. The Arabic mile (al-mīl), a unit of length employed by Arab geographers and scientists. Encyclopaedia of Scientific

Cicero (typography) (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Cicero Unit system typographic unit Unit of length Conversions 1 cicero in ... ... is equal to ... historical French units ⁠1/6⁠ in typographic

Polish units of measurement (1,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of 1565. Steel or copper rods used as local standard of ell (basic unit of length) were created in a voivode's capital and then dispatched to all nearby

Jo (265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wooden staff used in some Japanese martial arts jō (丈), a Japanese unit of length equivalent to the Chinese zhang jō (畳), a Japanese unit of area corresponding

NanoPutian (1,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"stand" on a gold surface. "NanoPutian" is a portmanteau of nanometer, a unit of length commonly used to measure chemical compounds, and lilliputian, a fictional

Bond length (1,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

length that exists for ordinary carbon covalent bonds. Since one atomic unit of length (i.e., a Bohr radius) is 52.9177 pm, the C–C bond length is 2.91 atomic

Skein (unit) (137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

A skein is a unit of length which has been used in the UK. As a measuring unit of cotton yarn or of silk, a skein equates to a "rap" or a "lea". One skein

Remen (77 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

teacher, and alternative medicine practitioner Remen, an Ancient Egyptian unit of length All pages with titles containing Remen Ramen, a noodle soup dish Qaleh

Ångström (disambiguation) (227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

up angstroem in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The angstrom is a unit of length equal to 0.1 nanometre, also spelled ångström (lower case). Ångström

Li (391 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

concept: 'reason', 'order', 'principle', 'idea' Li (unit) (里), a Chinese unit of length Li or cash (unit), a Chinese unit of weight Li (subdivision) (里), the

Kilo (237 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

containing Kilo Kilobyte (disambiguation) Kilometre (km), a metric unit of length This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kilo

Lachter (469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The lachter (also Berglachter) was a common unit of length used in the mining industry in Europe, usually to measure depth, tunnel driving and the size

Line (1,000 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hull of a ship meets the surface of the water Line (unit), an obsolete unit of length equal to one-twelfth or one-tenth of an inch The Line, a website and

YM (210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unit of molar concentration Yoctometre (ym), a unit of length or distance Yottametre (Ym), a unit of length or distance Yam (god), Ugaritic deity of the

Muggeseggele (1,169 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the colloquial bee's dick is used. Beard-second The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but applicable to extremely short distances

Pica (311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pica, a lance used by a picador in bullfighting Pica (typography), a unit of length used in typesetting and document layout píča, a rude expression for

Actus (139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

free dictionary. Actus may refer to: In Ancient Rome: Actus (unit of length), unit of length Actus, path which could only have a horse cart Actus purus

Arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain (467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1793 France adopted this definition of the metre as its official unit of length based on provisional results from this expedition. However, it was later

Stadia (128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

telescopic instrument Stadion (unit) (plural: stadia), an ancient Greek unit of length Google Stadia, a defunct cloud gaming service Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia

Hat'h (135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A hat'h (hath, hand, cubit, moolum or mulam) is an obsolete unit of length in India equal to 24 angli (approximately 18 inches) or 2 hat'h to a gaz (approximately

Metric time (1,210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord proposed that the fundamental unit of length for the metric system should be the length of a pendulum with a one-second

Cape foot (273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A Cape foot is a unit of length defined as 1.0330 English feet (and equal to 12.396 English inches, or 0.31485557516 meters) found in documents of belts

Fermi (disambiguation) (203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Fermi (Turin Metro), a rapid transit station in Italy Fermi (unit), a unit of length in nuclear physics equivalent to the femtometre RA-1 Enrico Fermi, a

Lay (188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

narrative verse Lay Dam, Alabama, United States Lea (unit), obsolete unit of length sometimes spelled "Lay" LA-Y, Yoshinobu Launch Complex, in Tanegashima

SI base unit (803 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

apparent solar noon. T metre m length "The metre, symbol m, is the SI unit of length. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light

Virgate (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Farm-derived units of measurement: The rod is a historical unit of length equal to 5+1⁄2 yards. It may have originated from the typical length of a mediaeval

Thou (disambiguation) (153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

English. Thou may also refer to: Thousandth(s) of an inch, a derived unit of length used in engineering and manufacturing Thousand Thou., a reference to

Chang (281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Thailand Chang number in mathematics Chang or zhàng, a Chinese customary unit of length Chang dance, a folk dance in India Chang International Circuit, a motorsport

Gomanta kingdom (472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

further south, to the mountains of Gomanta, measuring three Yojanas (a unit of length) in length. Within each yojana were established, 21 posts of armed men

Marching (915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assumed to be 75 cm or 30"; (not to be confused with the ancient Roman unit of length (2 steps or 5 Roman feet = 148 cm or 58")). The three most common paces

Himetric (116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Himetric is a resolution-independent unit of length. Its role is similar to the twip, but it is one hundredth of a millimetre. It is mainly used in Object

Kilometres per hour (2,141 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

English language until the late nineteenth century. The kilometre, a unit of length, first appeared in English in 1810, and the compound unit of speed "kilometers

Planck units (6,093 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

other quantities and coherent units may be expressed.: 1215 The Planck unit of length has become known as the Planck length, and the Planck unit of time is

CM (569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aerodynamics Curium, symbol Cm, a chemical element Centimetre (cm), a unit of length equal to one hundredth of a metre Coulomb-metre (C m), SI unit of electrical

Acre (3,532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Farm-derived units of measurement: The rod is a historical unit of length equal to 5+1⁄2 yards. It may have originated from the typical length of a mediaeval

PES (446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Latin for "foot") or the acronym PES may refer to: Pes (unit), a Roman unit of length measurement roughly corresponding with a foot Pes or podatus, a Neume

Rod (556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

photographic artifact claimed by some to be alien life Rod (unit), an Imperial unit of length, also known as the pole or perch Rod cell, a cell found in the retina

Gaussian gravitational constant (3,708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the expense of intuitiveness, as the astronomical unit, ostensibly a unit of length, was now dependent on the measurement of the strength of the gravitational

Foot (disambiguation) (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in many vertebrates. Foot or feet may also refer to: Foot (unit), a unit of length, now usually 0.3048 m or 12 inches Foot, an alternative name for the

Lea (476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

System, a series of pediatric vision tests Lea (unit), a former British unit of length Lea (magazine), a German weekly women's magazine Small River Lea, a

Metrication (13,651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published the first Swiss official map for which the metre was adopted as unit of length. A Swiss-French binational officer, Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was present

Var (317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

racing team based in the Netherlands Vara, an old Spanish and Portuguese unit of length; see Spanish customary units Free Anti Revolutionary Party (Dutch: Vrije

Commensurability (mathematics) (833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

segment of length a, and one of length b. That is, there is a common unit of length in terms of which a and b can both be measured; this is the origin of

Unglie (55 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A unglie ("finger") is an obsolete unit of length equal to three-fourths of an inch (1.905 cm) that was used in India and Pakistan. After metrification

LZ77 and LZ78 (2,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

these are the (previously seen) characters that comprise a single run unit of length LR, which must equal D. Then as the search pointer proceeds past the

Horizontal pitch (99 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Horizontal pitch (HP) is a unit of length defined by the Eurocard printed circuit board standard used to measure the horizontal width of rack mounted electronic

Harvard Bridge (4,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The bridge is known locally for being marked off in the idiosyncratic unit of length called the smoot. In 1874 the Massachusetts Legislature authorized construction

HM (196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

code top-level domain ostensibly for the above Hectometre (hm), an SI unit of length Hindley–Milner type system, in mathematics Search for "hm" , "h-m",

Football field (93 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

field Rugby union playing field Football field (length), an unusual unit of length Football field (area), an unusual measure of area This disambiguation

Arshin (80 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Arşın, old Turkish unit of length corresponding to a yard know as aršin among South Slavs Arshin (length), old Russian unit of length, similar to Turkish

Stone of Tmutarakan (473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

леду от Тмутороканя до Корчева 14000 сажен»). A sazhen, an old Rus unit of length, was equal to seven feet (or corresponded roughly to a fathom); thus

Pioneer plaque (2,584 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the small vertical line—representing the binary digit 1—specifies a unit of length (21 cm) as well as a unit of time (0.7 ns). Both units are used as measurements

Krypton (3,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

California. Archived from the original on 2015-08-21. Retrieved 2007-03-19. Unit of length (meter), NIST "Spectra of Gas Discharges". Archived from the original

Euclidean plane (1,969 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length. Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or just axis of the

Agate (typography) (353 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

scale (on the top) General information Unit system Typographic unit Unit of Length Conversions 1 agate in ... ... is equal to ... typographic units

Sun (disambiguation) (654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

unitary group of degree n, a concept in mathematics Cun (unit) or sun, a unit of length Mr. Sun, a Ni Hao Kai Lan character Search for "sun" on Wikipedia. Sun

Hvat (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hvat (Serbian: Хват) is a historical unit of length that was common in Croatia and Serbia analogous to fathom. The measurement system based on the hvat

Zhang (121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

river flowing mainly in Henan Zhang (unit) (丈), a traditional Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (3–3.7 m) 璋, a type of shaped stone or jade object in

Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) (401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Commission du Metre (Metre Commission - for the determination of the metric unit of length, the metre). For these commissions, he produced the instruments used

Chain (1,511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Buffers and chain coupler – Coupling for railway vehicles Chain (unit) – Unit of length Chain gang – Group of prisoners chained together as a form of punishment

Mom (disambiguation) (668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

wrestling tag team Men on a Mission mom, the abbreviation for the obsolete unit of length myriometre Mom (royal title), a Thai royal title Multiple of the median

Jow (unit) (59 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

A jow (also called a jacob) is an obsolete unit of length in India approximately equal 0.25 inch (about 0.63 cm). After metrication in India in the mid-20th

Kadem (93 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

kadem was set to be 30.48 cm (1.000 ft) in accordance with the British unit of length. But before the reign of Ottoman Sultan Selim III (r. 1789–1807), kadem

Faster-than-light (8,059 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an experimentally determined quantity for a fixed unit of length. Since 1983, the SI unit of length (the meter) has been defined using the speed of light

Parts-per notation (2,409 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relative proportion does not change with the adoption of a different unit of length. Similarly, a metering pump that injects a trace chemical into the main

Chuk (103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Idel-Ural festival Chuk, an alternative romanization of cheok, a unit of length in Korean units of measurement Chuk, alternative transliteration of

Å (2,159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as the international symbol for the non-SI unit ångström, a physical unit of length named after the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström. It is always

Hyperbolic orthogonality (1,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

when any pair of conjugate diameters are taken as new axes, and a new unit of length is taken proportional to the length of either of these diameters." On

Motion (3,793 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the metre's definition was proposed: "The metre, symbol m, is the unit of length; its magnitude is set by fixing the numerical value of the speed of

22 (number) (1,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

"Definition of CHAIN". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2020-08-19. a unit of length equal to 66 feet Cuartas, Javier (1990-01-05). "La suerte de los dos

Justin-Mirande René Benoit (235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to 1915. He was involved in moving from a physical definition of the unit of length to one based on the wavelength of light. Benoit was born in Montpellier

Kan (228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lie group in mathematics A Japanese unit of mass (貫) Kan, a Korean unit of length Dated transliteration of Gan in Chinese contexts Kan language (disambiguation)

Macron (sportswear) (1,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

then modified to "Macron" to be the opposite of "micron", which is a unit of length to measure something small. Macron was founded in 1971 as a distributor

Jacob (disambiguation) (216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Book of Jacob, in the Book of Mormon Jacob (unit), or jow, an obsolete unit of length in India Jacob sheep, a British breed of domestic sheep All pages with

Stadion (240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Holy Roman Empire Stadion (unit), Latinized as stadium, an ancient unit of length, formerly anglicized as stade All pages with titles containing Stadion

EM (587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

individuals with normal metabolic activity Exametre or exameter (Em), an SI unit of length equal to 1018 metres Electromagnetic spectrum, the range of all possible

Gaj (423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

footballer known by the nickname "GAJ" Gadsup language Gaj language Guz, a unit of length used in parts of Asia INS Gaj (2002), a tugboat of the Indian Navy Yamagata

YD (113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

YD, or Yd may refer to: Yard (yd), a unit of length Nissan YD engine, an automobile engine Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox, or Y-D Red Sox, a collegiate summer

Nano- (453 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Measures; SI symbol: nm), or nanometer (American spelling), is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one billionth (short

Speed of light (15,360 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

equivalent, wording of the metre's definition: "The metre, symbol m, is the unit of length; its magnitude is set by fixing the numerical value of the speed of

Rope (4,597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

set by the length of the available rope walk. This is related to the unit of length termed cable length. This allowed for long ropes of up to 300 yards

Arş (40 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

An arş (Ottoman Turkish آرش) is an old Turkish unit of length. The word means 'forearm' and thus the measure corresponds to a cubit. arşın, the Ottoman

MU (1,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

electric field across a material Linear density, a measure of mass per unit of length Magnetic dipole moment, a measure of the strength of a system's net

Size (1,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bits of information. In physics, the Planck length, denoted ℓP, is a unit of length, equal to 1.616199(97)×10−35 metres. It is a unit in the system of Planck

LAS (278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French Resistance with the pseudonym "Las" Lås, an archaic Norwegian unit of length The La's, English pop band Latin American Spanish, an umbrella term

MPC (340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

MPC, Mpc or mpc may refer to: Megaparsec (Mpc), unit of length used in astronomy Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Minor Planet

Physical constant (2,668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The speed of light is so fundamental it now defines the international unit of length. Whereas the physical quantity indicated by a physical constant does

1799 (2,965 words) [view diff] exact 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 States

International System of Units (5,862 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unit of the physical quantity of time; the metre, symbol m, the SI unit of length; kilogram (kg, the unit of mass); ampere (A, electric current); kelvin

WAA (122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Namatahi Waa (born 1990), New Zealand rugby union player Wa (unit), a Thai unit of length Waffenamt, a research and development agency of Nazi Germany Wales Airport

Spherical geometry (1,955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

natural unit of angle measurement (based on a revolution), a natural unit of length (based on the circumference of a great circle) and a natural unit of

Vara (292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bhutanese film by Khyentse Norbu Vara, a seldom used Spanish and Portuguese unit of length Portuguese customary units Spanish customary units Vara, a variety of

Auguste-Savinien Leblond (337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was a French mathematician. In 1790, he coined the name metre for the unit of length. Auguste-Savinien Leblond came from a family of mathematicians. It was

Core sample (2,105 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

surfaces is routine, often under both natural and ultra-violet light. A unit of length occasionally used in the literature on seabed cores is cmbsf, an abbreviation

Xu (292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Express Airways (IATA code XU), a Kenyan airline X unit (symbol xu), a unit of length approximately equal to 0.1 pm (10−13 m), used for X-ray and gamma ray

Bahar (400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the 2018 film Girls of the Sun Bahar (name) Bahar (unit), an obsolete unit of length in Iran, and unit of mass in Oman Bahar Azadi Coin, an Iranian gold

Rood (disambiguation) (105 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ROOD, a Dutch political youth organisation Rood (unit), an English unit of length or area Rood (Scots), a Scottish unit of area "Rood" (song), a 2006

Tape measure (2,922 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

metrication upgrade. In the adoption of the millimetre as the "small" unit of length for metrication (instead of the centimetre) the Metric Conversion Board

Grave (unit) (1,311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

proposal by Talleyrand called for a new system of units, including a unit of length derived from an invariable length in nature, and a unit of mass (then

Gabriel Mouton (438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bologna inches, or ~2.04 m, was reasonably close to the then current unit of length, the Parisian toise (~1.95 m) – a feature which was meant to make acceptance

Endaze (71 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Endaze is a defunct measurement unit of length used in the Ottoman Empire. Endaze means pace. But it is shorter than the pace. It was equal to 65.25 cm

FTM (155 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Catholic Junior High School, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Fathom, a unit of length Female-to-male, or trans man Sex reassignment surgery (female-to-male)

Glossary of astronomy (18,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

constants and in other forms of shorthand. astronomical unit (AU) A unit of length used primarily for measuring distances within the Solar System or secondarily

Computer data storage (6,534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

information. It is the storage capacity of a medium divided with a unit of length, area or volume (e.g. 1.2 megabytes per square inch). Latency The time

Gaz (357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

manufacturer Gaz (candy), Isfahan, Iran Gaz (measure) or Guz, Asian or Mughal unit of length Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche, 1972 Bollywood horror film directed by Tulsi

Superstring theory (2,966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with their incongruence is that, at Planck scale (a fundamental small unit of length) lengths, general relativity predicts a smooth, flowing surface, while

Byzantine units of measurement (1,030 words) [view diff] exact 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-pous

Bolt (cloth) (1,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016. a commercial unit of length or area used to measure finished cloth. Generally speaking, one bolt

A (disambiguation) (1,654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

prefix meaning 10−18 Ampere (A), unit of electric current ångström (Å) a unit of length (equal to 1×10−10 metres) area (A) attenuation coefficient (a) Bohr

J Class (yacht) (1,932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Also the result will be dimensionally correct; R will be a linear unit of length (such as feet or meters). J Class boats will have a rating from 65 to

Football (14,687 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

3 Football portal 1601 to 1725 in sports: Football Football field (unit of length) List of types of football List of players who have converted from one

Merhale (67 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Merhale was an Ottoman unit of length. 8 fersahs were equal to 1 merhale. Fersah was based on the distance covered by a horse in normal gait per hour.

Tower of Babel (8,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

72 km or 51.4 miles) in circumference. A stade was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time

Dash (6,822 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

number ten U+10191 𐆑 roman uncia sign A symbol for an ancient Roman unit of length. U+1104B 𑁋 Brahmi punctuation line U+11052 𑁒 Brahmi number one U+110BE

Cho (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O) Chō, an ancient Japanese unit of length approximately equal to 109.1 metres (357 ft 11 in) Chō, also used as

LS (486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

area, UK, covering Leeds County Laois, Ireland Light-second (ls), a unit of length in astronomy equivalent to the distance light travels in one second

Whale shark (6,929 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

learned through independent sources that it was at least 10 wa (a Thai unit of length measuring between a person's outstretched arms). Smith noted that one

Å (disambiguation) (224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

village in Uddevalla Municipality in Västra Götaland county Ångström, a unit of length (abbreviation: Å) A (disambiguation) AA (disambiguation) List of short

Meander (5,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distance; that is, a straight channel, results in the highest energy per unit of length, disrupting the banks more, creating more sediment and aggrading the

Hiro (248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Type 94, a W-18 liquid-cooled aircraft engine Hiro (unit) a Japanese unit of length, 1.8 m (a fathom) Hero (disambiguation) Hiroo (disambiguation) Hirohi

PostScript (4,344 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

has a console %!PS (Hello world!) = PostScript uses the point as its unit of length. However, unlike some of the other versions of the point, PostScript

Gradus (disambiguation) (89 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Parnassus". Gradus may also refer to: step (Latin: gradus), an ancient Roman unit of length gradus deiectio, Latin for "Reduction in rank" Gradus Gravis affair

Pierre Méchain (1,297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1791. This measurement would become the basis of the metric system's unit of length, the meter. He encountered numerous difficulties on this project, largely

X (disambiguation) (1,682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum X unit, unit of length in physics Tesla Model X, an electric crossover by Tesla HiPhi X, an

Uncia (103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(coin), an ancient Roman bronze coin Uncia (length), an ancient Roman unit of length An ancient Roman unit of mass roughly equivalent to the ounce Uncia

Chain (disambiguation) (1,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in semiotics, an interlocking system of signifiers Chain (unit), a unit of length Gunter's chain, a unit of measurement New York City Subway chaining

Uncia (103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(coin), an ancient Roman bronze coin Uncia (length), an ancient Roman unit of length An ancient Roman unit of mass roughly equivalent to the ounce Uncia

Shakuhachi (3,619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to its size. It is a compound of two words: shaku (尺) is an archaic unit of length equal to 30.3 centimetres (0.99 ft) and subdivided in ten subunits.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (19,869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Harvard Bridge, which is known for being marked off in a non-standard unit of length – the smoot. The Kendall/MIT MBTA Red Line station is located on the

Iridium (7,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paris. The meter bar was replaced as the definition of the fundamental unit of length in 1960 by a line in the atomic spectrum of krypton, but the kilogram

Cun (164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

International Airport (IATA code) Cun (unit), a traditional Chinese unit of length Cun language, a Hlai language of Hainan Island Conn (nautical), or cun

Mott–Bethe formula (742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

r_{\text{e}}} is the classical electron radius, to convert it back to a unit of length. The Mott–Bethe formula was originally derived for free atoms, and is

Oxgang (633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Farm-derived units of measurement: The rod is a historical unit of length equal to 5+1⁄2 yards. It may have originated from the typical length of a mediaeval

Mathematical constant (3,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of 2 is the length of a diagonal across a square with sides of one unit of length; this follows from the Pythagorean theorem. It is an irrational number

Barleycorn (82 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dictionary. Barleycorn may refer to: A grain of barley Barleycorn (unit) a unit of length, equal to one-third of an inch Barleycorn (surname) The Barleycorn,

Crimp (179 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

comedy series The Mighty Boosh Crimp (wool), the number of bends per unit of length Crimp (electrical), a type of solderless connection Crimping pliers

Indian mathematics (14,795 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

degree of accuracy. They designed a ruler—the Mohenjo-daro ruler—whose unit of length (approximately 1.32 inches or 3.4 centimetres) was divided into ten

Vitasti (147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A vitasti (Sanskrit: वितस्ति, vitasti) is an ancient Indian unit of length approximating to 21 centimeters.[citation needed] The Sanskrit word vitasti

American and British English spelling differences (12,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distinction of meter for a measuring instrument from metre for the unit of length. However, while "poetic metre" is often spelled as -re, pentameter,

Pseudoscientific metrology (2,567 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

measurements he obtained from the Great Pyramid of Giza indicated a unit of length, the pyramid inch, equivalent to 1.001 British inches, that could have

George Smoot (2,659 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Boston Globe. October 4, 2006. Retrieved 2022-03-24. "The SMOOT as unit of Length". Aether.lbl.gov. Retrieved 2022-03-24. Smoot, G.F.; et al. (September

Donald Knuth (6,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

System of Weights and Measures". In it, he defined the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of Mad No. 26, and named the fundamental unit of force

Spray nozzle (2,048 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contacts. This force is in the plane of the surface, and its amount per unit of length is surface tension. The value for water is about 0.073 N/m (0.0050 lbf/ft)

Vema (129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first king of the Reddy dynasty in Andhra Pradesh, India A Greek pace (unit of length) Research Vessel Vema, a research ship of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (2,549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

standard metre by comparison with the Toise of Peru, which had served as unit of length in the measurement of the meridional arcs in France and Peru. The Committee

Philosophy of space and time (5,569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Weights and Measures), or the wavelength of cadmium to stand in as our unit of length. The second feature deals with separated objects. Although we can, presumably

Point (typography) (2,996 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

scale (on the top) General information Unit system typographic unit Unit of length Conversions 1 point in ... ... is equal to ... typographic units

Depletion region (2,559 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

{\displaystyle N_{A}} are the number of ionized donors and acceptors "per unit of length", respectively. In this way, both N D {\displaystyle N_{D}} and N A

Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) (38,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the mid-1960s. fast supply vessel fast support vessel fathom 1. A unit of length equal to 6 feet (1.8 m), roughly measured as the distance between a

Howe truss (3,759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

affecting counter-braces depends on the ratio of live load to dead load per unit of length, and how the live load is distributed across the bridge. A uniform distribution

History of science (23,274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

degree of accuracy. They designed a ruler—the Mohenjo-daro ruler—whose unit of length (approximately 1.32 inches or 3.4 centimeters) was divided into ten

' (disambiguation) (267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics, and music Foot (unit), a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement Minute, a unit

Capture of HMS Cyane and HMS Levant (1,441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Constitution at Porto Praya, and killed himself in 1824. Footnotes A nautical unit of length equivalent to 720 feet (220 m) in the U.S. Navy and 608 feet (185 m)

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (2,908 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rules arranged in 1835 to 1838 for the standardization of the prussian unit of length], Berlin, 1839 Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Königlichen Universitäts-Sternwarte

Scottish units (1,490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of a yard at least." Scots ell The ell (Latin: ulna) was the basic unit of length, equal to 37 inches (941.3 mm). The "Barony ell" of 42 inches (1069 mm)

Paso (177 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fino, a naturally-gaited light horse breed Paso, a Spanish customary unit of length Paso, replaced by the longyi, traditional Burmese clothing "Paso (The

Vilnius (20,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

universale in 1675, in which he first suggested the term metre as a unit of length. The Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory, established in 1753

Shear flow (984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

around a thin-walled section. Shear flow has the dimensions of force per unit of length. This corresponds to units of newtons per meter in the SI system and

Centisome (391 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A centisome is a unit of length defined as one percent of the length of a particular chromosome. This course unit of physical DNA length began to be used

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1,284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

triangles have a maximum finite area and that there is an absolute unit of length. He finally concluded that: "the hypothesis of the acute angle is absolutely

Chinese calligraphy (5,772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fetch thousands to tens of thousands of yuan (renminbi) per chi (a unit of length, roughly equal to a foot) of artwork. As with other artwork, the economic

Hair's breadth (1,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Informal small unit of length

Viking Age arms and armour (5,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have been measured to between 100–130 pounds (45–59 kg) draw weight. A unit of length used in the Viking Age called a bow shot corresponded to what was later

St Pancras railway station (9,351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the same plans as those used for beer warehouses, and with a basic unit of length that of a beer barrel. The contract to build the station substructure

Pie (disambiguation) (488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Pete–Clearwater International Airport, Florida Pie, in Spanish customary units a unit of length Pie (loa), a type of spirit in Vodun/Voodoo religion Pie Magazine, a

Yancai (1,395 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alans)" The Chinese li of the Han period differs from the modern SI base unit of length; one li was equivalent to 415.8 metres. Perhaps what is known in the

Puti Zushi (1,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fly. However, Wukong could only rise about five or six zhang (Chinese unit of length) above the ground and traveled a distance of merely three li (Chinese

Puti Zushi (1,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fly. However, Wukong could only rise about five or six zhang (Chinese unit of length) above the ground and traveled a distance of merely three li (Chinese

Metrication in Sweden (685 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

still used in legal texts, in spite of officially not being a legal unit of length. World oil price is quoted in US dollars per Barrels. The metric yardstick

James Yates (minister) (1,216 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

for … a Uniform Decimal System, 1856 (two editions); What is the Best Unit of Length, Hackney, 1858; Handbook to … Synoptic Table … of the Metric System

Glossary of fuel cell terms (12,110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

symbol cm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, which is the current SI base unit of length. Centrifugal governor

Atomic clock (12,775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vibration of the particular kind of light whose wave length is the unit of length.' Maxwell argued this would be more accurate than the Earth's rotation

Hyperbolic triangle (1,759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the lengths are measured in terms of the absolute length (a special unit of length analogous to a relations between distances in spherical geometry). This

King of Na gold seal (839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

This dimension roughly corresponds to the traditional Chinese standard unit of length of one cun, as used in the Later Han dynasty (about 2.304 centimetres

John Wallis (5,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is the number representing the ratio of the space described to the unit of length; while the previous writers would have denoted the same relation by

Roman Republican currency (4,868 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

coin and also to a unit of weight – in fact, as could also mean any unit – of length, area, and sometimes just the number one. The bronze coinage was initially

English units (4,247 words) [view diff] exact 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 firewood

Cross section (physics) (5,772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Because the problem is genuinely two-dimensional, the cross section has unit of length (e.g., metre). Let α be the angle between the light ray and the radius

Korean units of measurement (3,017 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Japanese ken—of a bay between two pillars rather than as a set unit of length. The 1496 Great Codex of State Administration (Kyŏngguk Taejŏn) included

Glossary of virology (2,688 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V Z See also References nanometer (nm) A unit of length frequently used in describing the size of a virus or viral particle

German units of measurement (1,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to 3 m (9 ft 10 in) in Switzerland. The Lachter was the most common unit of length used in mining in German-speaking areas. Its exact length varied from

Dimensional analysis (11,891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acceleration was considered to have the dimension 1 with respect to the unit of length, and the dimension −2 with respect to the unit of time. This was slightly

Kos (unit) (632 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Kos (unit) Unit system Arthashastra Unit of length Symbol kos Conversions 1 kos in ... ... is equal to ... SI units 3075 m[citation needed] imperial/US units

Euclidean algorithm (15,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

modern usage, are not measured in the same units and there is no natural unit of length, area, or volume; the concept of real numbers was unknown at that time

Science in the ancient world (6,977 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

high degree of accuracy. They designed the Mohenjo-Daro ruler, whose unit of length (34 millimetres (1.3 in)) was divided into ten equal parts. Bricks manufactured

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (2,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in future problems. For the moment, it is cosmetic. 49 One khet is a unit of length, being equal to 100 cubits. Also, a "cubit strip" is a rectangular strip-measurement

Scruples (disambiguation) (112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

system All pages with titles containing Scruple Skrupel, a Norwegian unit of length Scrupulosity Maigret Has Scruples, a 1958 novel This disambiguation

Elizur Holyoke (774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as a rood; commonly, and confusingly, spelled as "rod." A rod is a unit of length, while a rood is the corresponding unit of area. The area given to Elizur

Glossary of physics (12,835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it is reflected. Mirrors exhibit specular reflection. ångström (Å) A unit of length primarily used to measure subatomic particles that is equal to 10−10

Historical definitions of the SI base units (759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the CIPM, at the temperature of melting ice, represents the metric unit of length. Interim (1960): 1650763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding

Oliver R. Smoot (660 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Chairman, American National Standards Institute "Smoot, Namesake of a Unit of Length, Retires". Interview. All Things Considered. NPR. December 7, 2005.

Maaßener Gaipel (1,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

der Sachsenzeche. Maaß, also variously spelt Maaß, Maas or Mas, is a unit of length for a pit field (Grubenfeld) and in mining in the Upper Harz measured

International rule (sailing) (2,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in metric or imperial units. The use of the term Metre refers to the unit of length (the metre) used in the expression of the result of the calculation

List of metric units (2,723 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

associated symbols: The second (s) is the unit of time. The metre (m) is the unit of length. The kilogram (kg) is the unit of mass. The ampere (A) is the unit of

Siegbahn (98 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spectroscopic notation for x-ray lines introduced by Manne Siegbahn X unit, unit of length defined by Manne Siegbahn This page lists people with the surname Siegbahn

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (4,235 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and Applied Radiometry, Imaging and Wave Optics, Quantum Optics and Unit of Length, Time and Frequency Division 5: Precision Engineering (site: Braunschweig)

List of things named after Enrico Fermi (632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist, is the eponym of the topics listed below. Fermi (unit), unit of length in particle physics equivalent to the femtometre Fermi arc, a phenomenon

Alexander Thom (2,877 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

JSTOR 3614618. S2CID 135198241. Thom, Alexander (1962). "The megalithic unit of length". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 125 (2): 243–251

Mathieu Tillet (637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

making of 24 copies of the Toise de l'Academie, the official measuring unit of length in the Kingdom of France, and their distribution to the main French

National Physical Laboratory of India (2,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

given to the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi. The standard unit of length, metre, is realized by employing a stabilized helium-neon laser as a

Seigneurie of Batiscan (2,187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Trois-Rivières, p. 8. A "lieue" is a unit of length formerly used in Europe and America. A "lieue" was a unit of length equal to the distance that a man can

Varas (99 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mexico Varashát, Hungary Vara, a seldom used Spanish and Portuguese unit of length Portuguese customary units Spanish customary units Antonio Varas Alex

Charles Piazzi Smyth (3,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

measurements he obtained from the Great Pyramid of Giza indicated a unit of length, the pyramid inch, equivalent to 1.001 British inches, that could have

Cordel (82 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cordel may refer to: Cordel, a unit of length, see Obsolete Spanish and Portuguese units of measurement Cordel literature

Quotition and partition (660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is conceptually equivalent to dividing the length of the table by a unit of length, the distance between markings. Thought of partitively, a division problem

Lordship of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (1,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Municipality A "lieue" is an old unit of length formerly used in Europe and Americas. A "lieue" was a unit of length equal to the distance that a man

John Rocque's maps of London (2,135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ground-level survey with a compass and a physical metal chain – the unit of length also being the chain. Compass bearings were taken of the lines measured

Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) (31,696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

both print form and digital for use in chartplotters. nautical mile A unit of length corresponding to approximately one minute of arc of latitude along any

Hath (75 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hath may refer to: Hat'h, an obsolete unit of length in India Hath (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who alien Hath (sport shooter)

Slot car (4,076 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

twenty-four", "one to thirty-two". 1:24 scale cars are built so that one unit of length (such as an inch or millimetre) on the model equals 24 units on the

Sinusoidal plane wave (2,866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spatial frequency ν {\displaystyle \nu } is the number of full cycles per unit of length along the direction n ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {n}}} . For any other value

Sinusoidal plane wave (2,866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spatial frequency ν {\displaystyle \nu } is the number of full cycles per unit of length along the direction n ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {n}}} . For any other value

2019 revision of the SI (9,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second. 2019 definition: The metre, symbol m, is the SI unit of length. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light

Universal rule (1,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Also the result will be dimensionally correct; R will be a linear unit of length (such as feet or meters). Sailing craft are thus rated when their R

Weights and Measures Act (Japan) (165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Measures Act in 1891. The act defined the shaku as the fundamental unit of length, and the kan as the fundamental unit of mass. Japanese units of measurement

Milliradian (5,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and gyroscopes in inertial navigation systems. Scandinavian mile, a unit of length common in Norway and Sweden, but not Denmark, today standardised as

Glossary of geography terms (A–M) (26,722 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

region, as projected radially to sea level or onto a geoid. chain A unit of length equal to 66 feet (20.117 m), used especially in public land surveys

Data mile (142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Data mile Unit of length Conversions 1 data mile in ... ... is equal to ... imperial/US units 6000 ft 1.13636 mi SI units 1.82880 km nautical units

Jian (disambiguation) (176 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(surname), Mandarin pinyin of the name 簡/简 Jian (unit), a traditional unit of length and area in building large structures Jian (era), a Japanese era from

1790s (14,960 words) [view diff] exact 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 States

Plethron (343 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ancient unit of Greek measurement (unit of length)

Jean-Joseph Tranchot (468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the resulting measurement became the basis for the metric system's unit of length, the meter. Alongside working with Méchain, Tranchot assisted Jean Baptiste

Timeline of scientific discoveries (10,369 words) [view diff] exact 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 evidence

Fermi Project (307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Feinberg, Mike Foster and Sarah Cunningham. A Fermi is an extremely small unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter. It is named after Enrico Fermi

Multi-junction solar cell (8,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

{\displaystyle \alpha (\lambda )} , i.e. the number of photons absorbed per unit of length by a material. If it is assumed that each photon absorbed by a subcell

Pixel aspect ratio (3,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

file. Display aspect ratio is the ratio of image width to height (in a unit of length such as centimeters or inches) when displayed on screen, and is calculated

Seconds pendulum (3,762 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1644. In 1660, the Royal Society proposed that it be the standard unit of length. In 1671 Jean Picard measured this length at the Paris observatory.

Approximations of π (12,484 words) [view diff] exact 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

Stade (disambiguation) (128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

2019) American literary scholar, critic and novelist Stade or stadion, unit of length All pages with titles containing Stade Stadion (running race) or stade

William Leybourn (1,278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematical measures. The section on the use of Gunter's chains as a unit of length shows early use of decimals in surveying. Leybourn later expanded and

Imperial and US customary measurement systems (8,900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nothing and in 1832 the Treasury adopted the yard of 36 inches as the unit of length for customs purposes, the avoirdupois pound of 7000 grains as the unit

Ramsden surveying instruments (2,128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

both cases usually refers to the measuring instrument rather than a unit of length, and distances measured are normally given in feet and decimal fractions

Łokieć (65 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

village in southeastern Poland Łokieć, or Polish ell, an obsolete Polish unit of length Tim Lokiec (born 1977), American artist This disambiguation page lists

Eastern Zhejiang Canal (5,552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Longkou Gate, is located in Xixing. In the past, it was ten li (a Chinese unit of length, one li = 1/2 kilometre) away from Xiaoshan County and served as the

Yatagarasu (1,825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

often used as an invocation before the early modern period. An ata is a unit of length, the length of the thumb and middle finger spread out (about 18 cm)

Ismail Mustafa al-Falaki (1,262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

metre reveals that it was then chosen as an international scientific unit of length by the European Arc Measurement which would later become the International

Palmo (62 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

columnist, and commentator Palmo (unit of measurement), a Spanish anthropic unit of length This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Palmo

Commentariolus (2,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

expresses the radii of the planets' deferents and epicycles in terms of a unit of length which is 1⁄25th of the radius of the Earth's orbit. Koyré (1973, pp

Piston motion equations (1,865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

automotive/hotrod use-case the most convenient (used by enthusiasts) unit of length for the piston-rod-crank geometry is the inch, with typical dimensions

Flag of São Paulo (state) (1,318 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(one) unit width for each stripe; b) Canton: 7.5 (seven and a half) unit of length by 5 (five) units wide; c) Circle: 4 (four) units in diameter; d) Geographic

Metrication in Australia (3,453 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

metrication upgrade. In the adoption of the millimetre as the "small" unit of length for metrication (instead of the centimetre) the Metric Conversion Board

Coherence (units of measurement) (2,730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

unit depends on the definition of the base units. Should the standard unit of length change such that it is shorter by a factor of 100000, then the bar would

French ship Oriflamme (1744) (985 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the contemporary British unit of length. "In Search of the Oriflamme". Société de l'Oriflamme. 2003. Retrieved

Dihydrogen cation (3,536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

states of the hydrogen molecular ion H+ 2 as a function of internuclear distance (R, in Bohr radii, the atomic unit of length). See text for details.

List of people from Italy (37,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published in 1675, first suggested the name meter as the name for a unit of length Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010), physicist who reconciled these strange-particle

Henry Arnold Karo (668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

guides; and over 44 million of its documents were issued. A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance; however, the measurement varied amongst

List of examples of lengths (3,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

quectometre, the smallest named subdivision of the metre in the SI base unit of length. 1×10−27 metres = 1 rm = 1 rontometre = 1000 quectometres 1×10−24 metres

Glossary of chemistry terms (18,187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spectroscopy, and electrochemistry. ångström (Å) A non-SI, metric unit of length equal to 10−10 metre, i.e. 1⁄10000000000 of a metre or 0.1 nanometre

Bahcall–Wolf cusp (1,481 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Growth of a Bahcall–Wolf cusp. The unit of length is the black hole influence radius. The elapsed time is roughly one relaxation time. The dashed line

List of English words of Russian origin (7,752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

16, 24, 32 kg). Verst (Russian: верста́, versta) An obsolete Russian unit of length or distance defined as being 500 sazhen long, equivalent to 3,500 feet

Scheitholz (193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

make wooden punnets and fruit or vegetable crates. Klafter, an old unit of length or volume for Scheitholz Fidibus, a firelighter Spanbaum c.f. Anonymus:

Metrication in the United Kingdom (10,697 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

help create such a system using the length of a pendulum as the base unit of length received the support of the British Parliament, championed by John Riggs

Guj (disambiguation) (75 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the free dictionary. Guj or GUJ may refer to: Guz, an obsolete Indian unit of length Gujarat, a state in western India Gujarat Airways, a former airline

IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants (815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

astronomical unit of mass is the mass of the Sun (S). The astronomical unit of length is known as the astronomical unit (A or au), which in the IAU(1976)

History of geodesy (12,825 words) [view diff] exact 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 became

Shale shakers (2,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with larger values representing higher volume handling Microns: a unit of length equal to one-thousandth of a millimeter Non-blanked area: an evaluation

Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen (940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wavelength of light, in order to be able to more accurately define the unit of length. In the inner garden of the Museum, he had a small observatory built

Penny (unit) (399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Unit of length of a nail, US and obsolete UK

List of Serbo-Croatian words of Turkish origin (1,229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

arab. ʔāla tool amidža amca uncle (father's side) aršin arşın arşın (unit of length) avlija avlu, avlı courtyard babo baba pers. bābā father, grandfather

Oderteich (2,770 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1712 and 27 February 1713, Niedersächsisches Bergarchiv Clausthal. A unit of length used in mining in Germany that equate to the distance of a man's outstretched

List of Italian scientists (5,498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published in 1675, first suggested the name meter as the name for a unit of length Francesco Stelluti (1577–1652), polymath who worked in the fields of

Pertica (unit) (399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

see perch. In the Ancient Rome, pertica, also called decempeda, was a unit of length, usually equal to 10 Roman feet (pedes), or approximately 2.96 meters

Rod calculus (3,616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mathematical Treatise of Sunzi used decimal fraction metrology. The unit of length was 1 chi, 1 chi = 10 cun, 1 cun = 10 fen, 1 fen = 10 li, 1 li = 10

Has Hlai grammar (31,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

zuu mous dax one classifier field "一亩田, one mu of field" • 【dho，丈】: a unit of length to measure the length of linear objects, 1 dho is about 350 centimeters

Greek foot (66 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

refer to Ancient Greek foot (Greek: ποῦς, poûs), the ancient Greek unit of length A foot, especially in statuary, having a second toe longer than the

Diego de Velasco (862 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain Alonso de Solis had taken several brazas (a braza was a Spanish unit of length equal to the reach of outspread arms) of pearls, the native medium of

Thomas–Fermi screening (2,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the number of electrons in a unit volume using atomic units where the unit of length is the Bohr, viz., 5.29177×10−9 cm, then r s = ( 3 4 π n ) 1 / 3 . {\displaystyle

Pashto grammar (10,879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

several exceptions here: غر ğar "mountain", ور war "door", ګز gaz "gaz (unit of length)", من man "man (unit of weight)", ټغر ṭağar "rug" take ونه -úna in the

List of words having different meanings in American and British English (M–Z) (1,396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

railway service area, a lumberyard or timber yard, a junkyard, etc.) a unit of length enclosed area of land surrounding a dwelling, usu. comprising lawn and

List of Indic loanwords in Indonesian (290 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

मार्गः mārgaḥ road masa period, time मास māsa month matra measurement unit, of length, height, depth मात्रा mātrā measurement unit maya illusion माया māyā

Permanent Forest Contract (1,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have already become for the most part inaccessible. Only a few rods (unit of length) have been saved for the Kleist monument. Normally one says noblesse

Western Han dynasty imperial tombs (916 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exactly how large the tombs originally were, but based on the Han dynasty unit of length, the bu (步), at that time 1,386 meter, it is likely that the base of

Andromeda's rock (557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

there. And on one of the rocks found about a parasang [ancient Persian unit of length] within the sea Noah their father is buried underneath a rock to which

Khojash Mahram Madrasah (490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and became rich, donated 1,784 tanabs (tanab – one of the measurement unit of length) – 715 hectares of land from his personal property as a waqf for the

Solar System belts (1,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the Solar System (IAU) On the re-definition of the astronomical unit of length (PDF). XXVIII General Assembly of International Astronomical Union.

List of Galician words of Germanic origin (12,976 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French guet 'guardian', from PGmc *wahtwō 'watch, guard'. ana sb.f. 'unit of length', from Occitan alna, from PGmc *alinō 'cubit'. anca sb.f. 'haunch, hip'

Body roundness index (1,566 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

simplifies as follows. Waist circumference and height can be in any unit of length, as long as they both use the same one. BRI = 364.2 − 365.5 1 − ( waist

List of conversion factors (1,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

= 1⁄3 in (see note above about rounding) = 8.46×10−3 m bohr, atomic unit of length a0 = Bohr radius of hydrogen ≈ 5.2917721092(17)×10−11 m cable length

Chinese character sounds (3,854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

written as "胜", but pronounced as hēng. 尺: pronounced chǐ, a Chinese unit of length; a musical notation of old music scores, pronounced che3. Polyphonic

Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) (18,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

fraction's numerator is typically 1 (indicating one of some specified unit of length, e.g. inches or centimetres) and the denominator is the number of the