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The bluish-white diamond weighed 34.48 carats (6.896 g), measured 5 ⁄ 8 of an inch (16 mm) across and possessed 12 diamond-shaped faces. History of the diamond
A cun (Chinese: 寸 ts'wun; Pinyin cùn IPA |mi=), often glossed as the Chinese inch, is a traditional Chinese unit of length.Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, whereas the width of the two forefingers denotes 1.5 cun and the width of four fingers (except the thumb) side-by-side is 3 cuns. [1]
The Leica Thread-Mount used on rangefinder cameras and on many enlarging lenses is 1 + 17 ⁄ 32 in by 26 turns-per-inch Whitworth, an artifact of this having been developed by a German company specializing in microscopes and thus equipped with tooling capable of handling threads in inches and in Whitworth.
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈ θ aʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" (mille ...
Subdivisions of an inch are typically written using dyadic fractions with odd number numerators; for example, two and three-eighths of an inch would be written as 2 + 3 / 8 ″ and not as 2.375″ nor as 2 + 6 / 16 ″. However, for engineering purposes fractions are commonly given to three or four places of decimals and have been ...
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport had officially tallied up 5.5 inches as of 1 p.m. EST. Some locations in the Washington, D.C. to Baltimore region have seen 6 to 8 inches of snowfall.
The newly arrived pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, took a tumble in their new winter wonderland after about 5 inches of snow blanketed Washington, DC, on Monday, including the panda’s outdoor habitats.
A wiffle, also referred to as a WAM for Wiffle (ball) assisted measurement, is equal to a sphere 89 millimetres (3.5 inches) in diameter – the size of a Wiffle ball, a perforated, light-weight plastic ball frequently used by marine biologists as a size reference in photos to measure corals and other objects.