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  2. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. [3] In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 meters.

  3. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    = 252.4608 Ms [note 3] Planck time: ≡ (G ℏ ⁄ c 5) 1 ⁄ 2: ≈ 5.391 16 × 10 −44 s [26] second (SI base unit) s ≡ Time of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at 0 K [8] (but other seconds are

  4. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    Here, the base units are the quad, equal to 10 7 m (approximately a quadrant of the Earth's circumference), the eleventhgram, equal to 10 −11 g, and the second. These were chosen so that the corresponding electrical units of potential difference, current and resistance had a convenient magnitude. [36]: 268 [37]: 17

  5. Help:Convert units - Wikipedia

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    {{convert|123|cuyd|m3+board feet}} → 123 cubic yards (94 m 3; 40,000 board feet) The following converts a pressure to four output units. The precision is 1 (1 decimal place), and units are abbreviated and linked.

  6. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The svedberg (S or Sv) is a unit of time used in chemistry equal to one hundred femtoseconds (100 fs). The shake is a unit of time used in nuclear physics equal to ten nanoseconds (10 ns). The sigma is a unit of time equal to one microsecond (1 μs). The jiffy is sometimes used to mean a unit of time of 10 ms. [dubious – discuss]

  7. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Volume was measured in ngogn (equal to 1000 cubic potrzebies), mass in blintz (equal to the mass of 1 ngogn of halva, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416"), and time in seven named units (decimal powers of the average earth rotation, equal to 1 "clarke").

  8. Fathom - Wikipedia

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    Miners also use it as a unit of area equal to 6 feet square (3.34 m 2) in the plane of a vein. [2] In Britain, it can mean the quantity of wood in a pile of any length measuring 6 feet (1.8 m) square in cross section. [2] In Central Europe, the klafter was the corresponding unit of comparable length, as was the toise in France.

  9. Shaku (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the actual length of the shaku varied over time, location, and use. By the early 19th century, the shaku was largely within the range of 0.30175 to 0.303 meters (11.880 in to 11.929 in), [1] but a longer value of the shaku (also known as the kōrai-shaku) was also known, and was 1.17 times longer than the present value (35.5 centimeters or 14.0 inches).