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  2. Inch - Wikipedia

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    25.4 mm. A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to ⁠1/36⁠ yard or ⁠1/12⁠ of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word inch is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other ...

  3. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    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. Since an international agreement in ...

  4. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly used units are the mile or "li" (哩, li 1), the yard or "ma" (碼, maa 5), the foot or "chek" (呎, cek 3), and the inch or "tsun" (吋, cyun 3). The traditional measure of flat area is the square foot ( 方呎, 平方呎 , fong 1 cek 3 , ping 4 fong 1 cek 3 ) of the imperial system, which is still in common use for real ...

  5. Hand (unit) - Wikipedia

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    To convert inches to hands, the number in inches is divided by four, then the remainder is added after the radix point. Thus, a horse that measures 60 inches is 15 hands high (15 × 4 = 60) and a horse halfway between 15 and 16 hands is 15.2 hands, or 62 inches tall (15 × 4 + 2 = 62) [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Because the subdivision of a hand is a base 4 ...

  6. History of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 inch 12 inches 1 foot 3 feet 1 yard 1760 yards 1 mile 36 inches 1 yard ... The "long ton" is equal to 2240 pounds (1016.047 kg), the "short ton" is equal to 2000 ...

  7. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Human penis size - Wikipedia

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    The 2015 study of 15,521 men found that the average length of a stretched flaccid penis was 13.24 cm (5.21 inches) long, which is near identical to the average length of an erect human penis which is 13.12 cm (5.17 inches) long. [11] [non-primary source needed]

  9. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    1 / 12 ⁠ picas. 1 / 72 ⁠ in. In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point has been between 0.18 and 0.4 millimeters.