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  2. List of scale model sizes - Wikipedia

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    1:36: 8.467 mm Popular scale for period ship plans — 1 inch = 3 feet. 1:35: 8.709 mm: Military models: The most popular scale for military vehicles and figures. Used heavily in models of armoured vehicles. It was originally conceived by Tamiya for convenience of fitting motorised parts and batteries. Corresponds well with 54mm figures. 1:34: ...

  3. Rail transport modelling scales - Wikipedia

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    1:8: 184 mm or 190.5 mm Ridable, outdoor gauge, named according to the gauge in inches, and scale in inches per foot, for example 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) gauge, 1.5 inch scale. The gauge is 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm) in the US and Canada, where the scale sometimes is 1.6 inch for diesel-type models. Private and public (club) tracks exist in many ...

  4. Inch - Wikipedia

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    This is approximately ⁠ 1 / 8inch per mile; 12.7 kilometres is exactly 500,000 standard inches and exactly 499,999 survey inches.

  5. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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    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 / ˈ θ aʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" (mille ...

  6. Hand (unit) - Wikipedia

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    To convert inches to hands, the number in inches is divided by four, then the remainder is added after the radix point. Thus, a horse that measures 60 inches is 15 hands high (15 × 4 = 60) and a horse halfway between 15 and 16 hands is 15.2 hands, or 62 inches tall (15 × 4 + 2 = 62) [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Because the subdivision of a hand is a base 4 ...

  7. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    1.8-inch drives with ZIF connectors were used in digital audio players, such as the iPod Classic, and subnotebooks. Later 1.8-inch drives were updated with a micro-SATA connector and up to 320GB of storage (Toshiba MK3233GSG). The 1.8-inch form factor was eventually phased out as SSDs became cheaper and more compact. [38]

  8. Drill bit sizes - Wikipedia

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    For Morse taper-shank drill bits, the standard continues in 1/64 inch increments up to 1¾ inch, then 1/32 inch increments up to 2¼ inch, 1/16 inch increments up to 3 inches, 1/8 inch increments up to 3¼ inches, and a single 1/4 inch increment to 3½ inches. One aspect of this method of sizing is that the size increment between drill bits ...

  9. Image sensor format - Wikipedia

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    This "inch" system gives a result approximately 1.5 times the length of the diagonal of the sensor. This " optical format " measure goes back to the way image sizes of video cameras used until the late 1980s were expressed, referring to the outside diameter of the glass envelope of the video camera tube .