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  2. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The last is typically longer than the foot heel to toe length by 4 ⁄ 3 cm (13.33 mm) to 5 ⁄ 3 cm (16.67 mm), or 2 to 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 Paris points, so to determine the shoe size based on actual foot length one must add 2 Paris points.

  3. 9.5 mm film - Wikipedia

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    After the war, the 9.5 mm gauge suffered strong competition from Kodak's 8 mm film, which was introduced in 1932. Notwithstanding the far poorer resolution of the 8 mm frame, which could hold only about a quarter of the information of the 9.5 mm or 16 mm frame, 8 mm was taken up by a wider public, partly because of the commercial power of its ...

  4. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The nanoacre is a unit of real estate on a very-large-scale integration (VLSI) chip equal to 0.00627264 sq in (4.0468564224 mm 2) or the area of a square of side length 0.0792 in (2.01168 mm). VLSI nanoacres have similar total costs to acres in Silicon Valley.

  5. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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    ≈ 19.050 mm: Missal: Missaal 56 ≈ 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 ...

  6. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A board foot is a United States and Canadian unit of approximate volume, used for lumber. It is equivalent to 1 inch × 1 foot × 1 foot (144 cu in or 2,360 cm 3). It is also found in the unit of density pounds per board foot. In Australia and New Zealand the terms super foot or superficial foot were formerly used for this unit. The exact ...

  7. 9.5×57mm Mannlicher–Schönauer - Wikipedia

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    The 9.5×57mm Mannlicher–Schönauer (MS) cartridge was adopted for the M-1910 MS rifle and carbine in 1910. [3] ( Note: The name Schoenauer is correctly spelled Schönauer with an “umlaut” over the “o” in German, although the rifles themselves are stamped with the German umlauted ""oe"") The 9.5×57mm MS is also known as the 9.5×56mm MS, the 9.5×56.7mm MS, and the .375 Rimless ...

  8. 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.

  9. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The millimetre (SI symbol: mm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10 −3 metres (⁠ 1 / 1 000 ⁠ m = 0.001 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude , this section lists lengths between 10 −3 m and 10 −2 m (1 mm and 1 cm).