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  2. Five-foot way - Wikipedia

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    A five-foot way (Malay / Indonesian: kaki lima) is a roofed continuous walkway commonly found in front of shops in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia which may also be used for commercial activity. The name refers to the width of the passageway, but a five-foot way may be narrower or wider than five feet. Although it looks like European arcade ...

  3. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property ...

  4. British standard ordnance weights and measurements - Wikipedia

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    The British standard ordnance weights and measurements for the artillery were established by the Master General of Ordnance in 1764, and these were not altered until 1919, [citation needed] when the metric system was additionally introduced. This system has largely been replaced by defining the weapon in terms of the measurement of the calibre ...

  5. Ottoman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Local name In English Equivalence In modern units [2]; nokta: نقطه: point 0.219 mm (0.0086 in) hat: خط‎ line 12 nokta: 2.63 mm (0.104 in) parmak: پرمق

  6. List of gauge conversions - Wikipedia

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    891 mm (2 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 32 in) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1934 Sweden The short and isolated standard gauge tram line Långängsbanan built in 1911 in the northern Stockholm suburb of Stocksund, was converted to the narrow 891 mm (2 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 32 in) Swedish three foot of the adjacent Roslag Railway in 1934. Långängsbanan was closed in ...

  7. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    The metric system is a decimal -based system of measurement. The current international standard for the metric system is the International System of Units (Système international d'unités or SI), in which all units can be expressed in terms of seven base units: the metre (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), kelvin (K), mole (mol), and ...

  8. List of most-subscribed YouTube channels - Wikipedia

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    American YouTube personality MrBeast is the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, with 316 million subscribers as of September 2024.. A subscriber to a channel on the American video-sharing platform YouTube is a user who has chosen to receive the channel's content by clicking on that channel's "Subscribe" button, and each user's subscription feed consists of videos published by channels to which ...

  9. Viscosity - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate. [1] For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness": for example, syrup has a higher viscosity than water. [2] Viscosity is defined scientifically as a force multiplied by a time divided by an area.