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  2. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    0.3048 m. 30.48 cm. 304.8 mm. The foot (standard symbol: ft) [1][2] is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. 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.

  3. French catheter scale - Wikipedia

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    French catheter scale. The French scale, French gauge or Charrière system is commonly used to measure the size of a catheter. It is most often abbreviated as Fr, but can often be seen abbreviated as Fg, FR or F. It may also be abbreviated as CH or Ch (for Charrière, its inventor). However, simply gauge, G or GA generally refers to Birmingham ...

  4. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property ...

  5. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The conversion between different SI units for one and the same physical quantity is always through a power of ten. This is why the SI (and metric systems more generally) are called decimal systems of measurement units. [10] The grouping formed by a prefix symbol attached to a unit symbol (e.g. ' km ', ' cm ') constitutes a new inseparable unit ...

  6. Metrication in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Metrication in the United States. A shampoo label from the U.S. that shows a round metric quantity taking secondary status in parentheses next to non-integer U.S. customary quantity. Metrication (or metrification) is the process of introducing the International System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace a ...

  7. Cubic foot - Wikipedia

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    1⁄27 yd 3. SI units. 0.02831685 m 3. The cubic foot (symbol ft3 or cu ft) [1] is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot (0.3048 m) in length. Its volume is 28.3168 L (about 1⁄35 of a cubic metre).

  8. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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    ≈ 19.756 mm: Double-canon 60 ≈ 21.167 mm: Five-line pica: Große Missal: Sabon 66 ≈ 23.283 mm: Große Sabon [8] Grote sabon 72 25.4 mm: Six-line pica Inch: Double-trismégiste: Sabon Sechscicero [8] Kleine Sabon [22] 6 cicero 84 ≈ 29.633 mm: Seven-line pica: Siebencicero [8] Große Sabon [22] 7 cicero 88 ≈ 31.044 mm: Triple-canon 96 ...

  9. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating them to each other. Systems of measurement have historically been important, regulated and defined for the purposes of science and commerce. Instances in use include the International System of ...