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  2. Yard - Wikipedia

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    The quarter of a yard (9 inches) was known as the "quarter" without further qualification, while the sixteenth of a yard (2.25 inches) was called a nail. [62] The eighth of a yard (4.5 inches) was sometimes called a finger, [63] but was more commonly referred to simply as an eighth of a yard, while the half-yard (18 inches) was called "half a ...

  3. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    The factor–label method can convert only unit quantities for which the units are in a linear relationship intersecting at 0 (ratio scale in Stevens's typology). Most conversions fit this paradigm. An example for which it cannot be used is the conversion between the Celsius scale and the Kelvin scale (or the Fahrenheit scale). Between degrees ...

  4. 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.

  5. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    The US Customary system of units makes use of set of dry units of capacity that have a similar set of names [Note 7] to those of liquid capacity, though different volumes: the dry pint having a volume of 33.6 cubic inches (550 ml) against the US fluid pint's volume of 28.875 cubic inches (473 ml) and the imperial pint of 34.68 cubic inches (568 ...

  6. History of measurement - Wikipedia

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    5 Metric conversion. 6 ... table lists the equivalents. components unit 12 lines 1 inch 12 inches 1 foot 3 feet 1 yard 1760 yards 1 mile 36 inches 1 yard 440 yards ...

  7. Unit of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London Units of measurement, Palazzo della Ragione, Padua. A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. [1]

  8. Cubic yard - Wikipedia

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    1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet = 46 656 cubic inches = 0.764 554 857 984 cubic metres ≈ 1.834 264 65 × 10 −10 cubic miles: ≈ 21.022 3197 imperial bushels: ≈ 21.696 2157 US bushels : ≈ 168.178 557 imperial gallons

  9. Inch - Wikipedia

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    The United States adopted the conversion factor 1 metre = 39.37 inches by an act in 1866. [30] In 1893, Mendenhall ordered the physical realization of the inch to be based on the international prototype metres numbers 21 and 27, which had been received from the CGPM, together with the previously adopted conversion factor. [31]