When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length)

    3.5 cmwidth of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography; 3.78 cm – amount of distance the Moon moves away from Earth each year [113] 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball [114] 5 cm – usual diameter of a chicken egg; 5 cmheight of a hummingbird, the smallest-known bird; 5.08 cm – 2 inches, 5.5 × 5.5 × 5 ...

  3. Cypriot units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_units_of_measurement

    1 square inch = 6.4516 cm 2 or 1 ⁄ 144 sq. feet 1 square foot = 0.09290304 m 2 or 1 ⁄ 9 sq. yards, or 144 sq. inches 1 square yard = 0.83612736 m 2 or 1 ⁄ 400 evleks, 1 ⁄ 1600 donums, or 9 square feet 1 evlek = 334.450944 m 2 or 1 ⁄ 4 donum, 400 square yards, or 3600 square feet 1 square mile = 2.589988110336 km 2 or 640 acres, or ...

  4. Romanian units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_units_of_measurement

    The origin of some of the measures are the Latin (such as iugăr unit), Slavic (such as vadră unit), Greek (such as dram unit) and Turkish (such as palmac unit) systems. This system is no longer in wide use since the adoption of the metric system in 1864, however some rural communities still use a small subset of these units.

  5. Vietnamese units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Vietnamese_units_of_measurement

    Originally, many thước of varying lengths were in use in Vietnam, each used for different purposes. According to Hoàng Phê (1988), [1] the traditional system of units had at least two thước of different lengths before 1890, [2] the thước ta (lit. "our ruler") or thước mộc ("wooden ruler"), equal to 0.425 metres (1 ft 4.7 in), and the thước đo vải ("ruler for measuring ...

  6. Historical Russian units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Russian_units...

    Treasury/official desyatina (казённая десяти́на, kazyonnaya desyatina) = 10,925.4 m 2 = 117,600 sq ft = 2.7 acres = 2,400 square sazhen' Proprietor's (владе́льческая десяти́на, vladel'cheskaya desyatina) = 14,567.2 m 2 = 156,800 sq ft = 3,200 square sazhen' 3 proprietor's desyatinas = 4 official desyatinas

  7. Maltese units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_units_of_measurement

    Table of area (square) units Unit Plural Relative value Metric value Imperial value Notes pulzier kwadru: pulzieri kwadri 1 ⁄ 144 ~4.765 cm 2 ~0.7385 sq in fitel kwadru: iftla kwadri 1 ⁄ 4 ~171.5 cm 2 ~26.59 sq in xiber kwadru: xbar kwadri 1 ~686.1 cm 2 ~106.3 sq in qasba kwadra: qasab kwadri, or qasbiet kwadri 64 ~4.391 m 2 ~5.252 sq yd an ...

  8. Length - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length

    Width and breadth usually refer to a shorter dimension than length. Depth is used for the measure of a third dimension. [2] Length is the measure of one spatial dimension, whereas area is a measure of two dimensions (length squared) and volume is a measure of three dimensions (length cubed).

  9. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_units_of_measurement

    The American football field, which has a playing area 100 yards (91.4 m) long by 160 feet (48.8 m) wide. This is often used by the American public media for the sizes of large buildings or parks. It is used both as a unit of length (100 yd or 91.4 m, the length of the playing field excluding goal areas) and as a unit of area (57,600 sq ft or ...