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The term, yard derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd etc., which was used for branches, staves and measuring rods. [5] It is first attested in the late 7th century laws of Ine of Wessex, [6] where the "yard of land" mentioned [6] is the yardland, an old English unit of tax assessment equal to 1 ⁄ 4 hide.
The international yard and pound agreement of July 1959 defined the length of the international yard in the United States and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations as exactly 0.9144 meters. Consequently, since a foot is one third of a yard, the international foot is defined to be equal to exactly 0.3048 meters.
The decimetre (SI symbol: dm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10 −1 metres ( 1 / 10 m = 0.1 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 centimeters and 100 centimeters (10 −1 meter and 1 meter).
In the U.S., the Mendenhall Order of 1893 tied the length of the U.S. yard to the meter, with the equivalence 39.37 inches = 1 meter, or approximately 0.914 401 828 803 658 meters per yard. In 1959, the international yard and pound agreement established the "international" yard length of 0.9144 meters, upon which both the customary U.S. and ...
The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [5] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [6] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)
The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.
[1] [2] By the 20th century, the guz was uniformly quoted as being equal in length to one yard in the English system, or 0.91 metres in the metric system. [3] But there are some different values still in use, like Bikaner has 1 guz/gaz = 2 ft officially recognized and in use. [4] The guz is still commonly used in the Indian subcontinent.
One pic was equal to 2 feet (0.6096 m). [2] [3] Prior to the adoption of the metric system for units of length in 1986, this was the base unit for length. Other units used were the following: 1 inch = 2.54 cm or 1 ⁄ 12 foot, 1 ⁄ 24 pic, or 1 ⁄ 36 yard 1 foot = 30.48 cm or 12 inches, 1 ⁄ 2 pic, or 1 ⁄ 3 yard 1 yard = 0.9144 m or 3 feet ...