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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    It represents fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are: 1 kilowarhol – famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric "nine-day wonder". 1 megawarhol – famous for 15 million minutes, or 28.5 years. First used by Cullen Murphy in 1997. [71]

  3. FFF system - Wikipedia

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    The length unit of the system is the furlong, the mass unit is the mass of a firkin of water, and the time unit is the fortnight. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Like the SI or metre–kilogram–second systems, there are derived units for velocity , volume , mass and weight , etc.

  4. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The base units are defined in terms of the defining constants. For example, the kilogram is defined by taking the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10 −34 J⋅s, giving the expression in terms of the defining constants [1]: 131 1 kg = ⁠ (299 792 458) 2 / (6.626 070 15 × 10 −34)(9 192 631 770) ⁠ ⁠ h Δν Cs / c 2 ⁠.

  5. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    Since all gases have the same volume per mole at a given temperature and pressure far from their points of liquefaction and solidification (see Perfect gas), and air is about ⁠ 1 / 5 ⁠ oxygen (molecular mass 32) and ⁠ 4 / 5 ⁠ nitrogen (molecular mass 28), the density of any near-perfect gas relative to air can be obtained to a good ...

  6. Taiwanese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Table of Lengths Unit Taiwanese feet Metric US & Imperial Notes Taiwanese Hokkien Hakka Mandarin Character Exact Approx. Exact Approx. Hun: Fûn: Fēn: 分: 1 ⁄ 100 ⁠ 1 / 330 ⁠ m 3.030 mm

  7. Centimetre or millimetre of water - Wikipedia

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    A centimetre of water [1] is a unit of pressure. It may be defined as the pressure exerted by a column of water of 1 cm in height at 4 °C (temperature of maximum density) at the standard acceleration of gravity, so that 1 cmH 2 O (4°C) = 999.9720 kg/m 3 × 9.80665 m/s 2 × 1 cm = 98.063754138 Pa ≈ 98.0638 Pa, but conventionally a nominal maximum water density of 1000 kg/m 3 is used, giving ...

  8. SI derived unit - Wikipedia

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    The SI has special names for 22 of these coherent derived units (for example, hertz, the SI unit of measurement of frequency), but the rest merely reflect their derivation: for example, the square metre (m 2), the SI derived unit of area; and the kilogram per cubic metre (kg/m 3 or kg⋅m −3), the SI derived unit of density.

  9. Square metre - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of 1 square metre with some Imperial and metric units of area The square metre ( international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures ) or square meter ( American spelling ) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m 2 . [ 1 ]