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2. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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   Finer threads require more threads per inch than thick ones and thus result in a higher number of ends per inch. The number of ends per inch in a piece of woven cloth varies depending on the stage of manufacture. Before the cloth is woven, the warp has a certain number of ends per inch, which is directly related to the size reed being used ...

3. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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   Dress sizes may be given as girth at the bust in inches (e.g., 36), but even-numbered sizes from 2 to 16 are more common. ... 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) ... Standard Table of ...

4. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   ISO 8559-2:2017, Size designation of clothes: Part 2: Primary and secondary dimension indicators; ISO 8559-3:2018, Size designation of clothes: Part 3: Methodology of the creation of the body measurement tables and intervals; ISO 8559-3:2023, Size designation of clothes: Part 4: Determination of the coverage ratios of body measurement tables

5. English units - Wikipedia

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   From fingertip of outstretched arm to opposite shoulder, 20 nails = 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 yard or 45 inches. Mostly for measuring cloth. Fathom: 1.829 m: 6 feet, distance between arms outstretched, from fingertip to fingertip, on a 6-foot-tall person. Rod: 5 m: Also called a perch or pole: a measure used for surveying land and in architecture.

6. Yard - Wikipedia

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   The informal public imperial measurement standards erected at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, in the 19th century: 1 British yard, 2 feet, 1 foot, 6 inches, and 3 inches. The inexact monument was designed to permit rods of the correct measure to fit snugly into its pins at an ambient temperature of 62 °F (16.66 °C ).

7. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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   ≡ 6 ft [4] = 1.8288 m femtometre: fm ≡ 1 × 10 −15 m: ≡ 1 × 10 −15 m: fermi: fm ≡ 1 × 10 −15 m [4] ≡ 1 × 10 −15 m: finger: ≡ 7 ⁄ 8 in = 0.022 225 m: finger (cloth) ≡ 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in = 0.1143 m foot (Benoît) (H) ft (Ben) ≈ 0.304 799 735 m: foot (Cape) (H) Legally defined as 1.033 English feet in 1859 ≈ 0.314 858 m ...