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  2. Quintuple meter - Wikipedia

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    Simple quintuple meter can be written in 5 4 or 5 8 time, but may also be notated by using regularly alternating bars of triple and duple meters, for example 2 4 + 3 4.Compound quintuple meter, with each of its five beats divided into three parts, can similarly be notated using a time signature of 15

  3. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Simple meters are those whose upper number is 2, 3, or 4, sometimes described as duple meter, triple meter, and quadruple meter respectively. In compound meter , the note values specified by the bottom number are grouped into threes, and the upper number is a multiple of 3, such as 6, 9, or 12.

  4. Metre - Wikipedia

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    The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠ 1 / 299 792 458 ⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.

  5. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A metric lieue was used in France from 1812 to 1840, with 1 metric lieue being exactly 4,000 m, or 4 km (about 2.5 mi). [4] It is this unit that is referenced in both the title and the body text of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870). [5]

  6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) – height of average U.S. male human as of 2002 (source: U.S. CDC as per female above) 2.4 m – wingspan of a mute swan; 2.5 m – height of a sunflower; 2.7 m – length of a leatherback sea turtle, the largest living turtle; 2.72 m – (8 feet 11 inches) – tallest-known human (Robert Wadlow) [31]

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  8. Walking distance measure - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, the standard measure for walking distance is 80 meters for 1 minute of walking time. It is the standard used in real estate listings. It is the standard used in real estate listings. For example, if a building is a 10-minute walk from a particular park or train station, it is 800 meters away.

  9. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, metre (British spelling) or meter ... (4 4, 3 4, etc.) generate many different surface ... , has polymetric verses, with the drums and bass playing in 5 4, ...