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  2. Arm span - Wikipedia

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    Arm span or reach (sometimes referred to as wingspan, or spelled armspan) is the physical measurement of the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90° angle.

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1 m – approximate height of the top part of a doorknob on a door; 1 m – diameter of a very large beach ball; 1.29 mlength of the Cross Island Chapel, the smallest church in the world; 1.4 mlength of a Peel P50, the world's smallest car; 1.435 m – standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4 ft 8 ...

  4. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.

  5. 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.

  6. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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    The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [10] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [11] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)

  7. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The foot of an adult European-American male is typically about 15.3% of his height, [10] giving a person of 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) a foot-length of about 268 mm (10.6 in), on average. Archaeologists believe that, in the past, the people of Egypt , India , and Mesopotamia preferred the cubit , while the people of Rome , Greece , and China preferred ...

  8. After Losing More Than an Inch in Height, a Shocking New ...

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    For me, I’m a 35-year Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor, and 35 years ago, I had a protocol of 4,800 rads of radiation (meaning, I hit a lifetime limit of radiation when I was just 25 years old).

  9. Average human height by country - Wikipedia

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    183.8 cm (6 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in) 170.7 cm (5 ft 7 in) 1.08: 21 (N= m:74 f:50, SD= m:7.1 cm (2.8 in) f:6.3 cm (2.5 in)) 1.5%: Measured: 2009 [138] New Zealand: 177 cm (5 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 164 cm (5 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.08: 20–49: 56.9%: Measured: 2007 [19] Nicaragua — 153.7 cm (5 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in) — 25–49: 54.1%: Self-reported: 2001 [32 ...