When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Kilogram - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram

    Kilogram' means 'one thousand grams' [2] and is colloquially abbreviated to kilo. [3] The kilogram is an SI base unit, defined ultimately in terms of three defining constants of the SI, namely a specific transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom, the speed of light, and the Planck constant.

  3. Pao (unit) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pao_(unit)

    Convenient "pau" units of both 200 grams and 250 grams are in current use in retail sales in different parts of the country. In Pakistan, the pao was slightly heavier, at 233.3 grams. [6] As to Afghanistan, it was reported in 1950 that 1 pao ≈ 1 lb (450 grams) in Kabul, with four paos to one charak and sixteen paos to a seer. [7]

  4. Orders of magnitude (mass) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)

    The gram (10 −3 kg) is an SI derived unit of mass. However, the names of all SI mass units are based on gram , rather than on kilogram ; thus 10 3 kg is a megagram (10 6 g), not a * kilokilogram .

  5. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_units_of_measurement

    40 sers = 1 maund (= 34 kg 8 hg 3 dag 5g 9 dg 2.6 cg /34.835926 kilograms) 1 rattī = 1.75 grains (= 0.11339825 gram/113 milligrams 398 1/4 micrograms 4 attograms ) (1 grain = 0.064799 gram) From 1833 the rupee and tolā weight was fixed at 180 grains, i.e. 11.66382 grams. Hence the weight of 1 maund increased to 37.324224 kilogram. [3]

  6. Human body weight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight

    Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.

  7. Gram - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram

    The gram (originally gramme; [1] SI unit symbol g) is a unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.. Originally defined as of 1795 as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre [1 cm 3], and at the temperature of melting ice", [2] the defining temperature (≈0 °C) was later changed to 4 ...

  8. Philippine units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_units_of...

    1 Kurot = 5 grams; 1 Daks = 10 grams; 1 Guhit = 100 grams; 1 Kagitna = 1/2 kilogram; 1 Gatang = 1 kilogram; 1 Chimanta = 6 kilograms; 1 Kaban = 50 kilograms; Length.

  9. Seer (unit) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seer_(unit)

    In India, the seer was a traditional unit used mostly in Northern India including Hindi speaking region, Telangana in South. Officially, seer was defined by the Standards of Weights and Measures Act (No. 89 of 1956, amended in 1960 and 1964) as being exactly equal to 1.25 kilograms (2.8 lb).