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  2. List of cities by average precipitation - Wikipedia

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    Average monthly precipitation (in mm) for selected cities in Asia ; City Country Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ref. Mawsynram: India: 133.0 8.3 15.7 27.4 29.8 26.0 5.7

  3. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    10 −3: micro μ 0.000 001: 10 −6: nano n 0.000 000 001: 10 −9: ... Units of duration longer than a day are problematic since both month and year have varying ...

  4. Litre - Wikipedia

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    In 1901, at the 3rd CGPM conference, the litre was redefined as the space occupied by 1 kg of pure water at the temperature of its maximum density (3.98 °C) under a pressure of 1 atm. This made the litre equal to about 1.000 028 dm 3 (earlier reference works usually put it at 1.000 027 dm 3).

  5. Earth rainfall climatology - Wikipedia

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    Quibdó, the capital of Chocó, receives the most rain in the world among cities with over 100,000 inhabitants: 9,000 millimetres (350 in) per year. [62] Storms in Chocó can drop 500 mm (19.7 in) of rainfall in a day. This amount is more than falls in many cities in a year's time.

  6. Metrication in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Technical publications by industry publishers and American automakers often give engine displacements in cubic inches as well as cubic centimeters (which are equivalent to milliliters), or liters. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] For example, the specifications for the Dodge SRT-8 6.1 L Hemi state the displacement as 370 cubic inches (6,100 cm 3 ).

  7. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: 2022 [12] ronna: R: 10 27: ... 3 = 10 −3 m 3. Many non-SI units continue to be used in the scientific, technical, and ...

  8. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    According to the "Date" system in Knuth's article, which substitutes a 10-clarke "mingo" for a month and a 100-clarke "cowznofski", for a year, the date of October 29, 2007 is rendered as "Cal 7, 201 C. M." (for Cowznofsko Madi, or "in the Cowznofski of our MAD"). The dates are calculated from October 1, 1952, the date MAD was first published.

  9. Month - Wikipedia

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    A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words month and Moon are cognates.The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly 12.37 such months in one Earth year.