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  2. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    One momme = 4.340 g/m 2; 8 mommes is approximately 1 ounce per square yard or 35 g/m 2. The momme is based on the standard width of silk of 45 inches (1.1 m) wide (though silk is regularly produced in 55-inch (1.4 m) widths and uncommonly in larger widths). The usual range of momme weight for different weaves of silk are: Habutai—5 to 16 mm

  3. Guz - Wikipedia

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    By 1875, the average value of the guz in Bengal was 36 inches (1.0 yd; 910 mm), but was 33 inches (840 mm) in Madras and 27 inches (690 mm) in Bombay. [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 ...

  4. Ottoman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    31.57 mm (1.243 in) kerrab or kirab: 42.5 mm (1.67 in) rubu or urup: 2 kerrab: 85 mm (3.3 in) ayak or kadem: آیاق: foot 12 parmak: 378.87 mm (1.2430 ft) endaze: ell: 650 mm (2.13 ft) arşın: آرشين or آرشون: ell 68 cm (2.23 ft) zirai: agricultural/yard 2 ayak: 757.74 mm (2.4860 ft) kulaç: fathom: 1.8288 m (6.000 ft) berid or ...

  5. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Typical resolution is 500 mickeys per inch (16 mickeys per mm), but resolutions up to 16,000 mickeys per inch (600 mickeys per mm) are available. Muggeseggele A Muggeseggele is a humorous Alemannic German idiom used in Swabia to designate a nonspecific very small length or amount of something; it refers to a housefly 's scrotum .

  6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 −3 m and 10 −2 m (1 mm and 1 cm). 1.0 mm1/1,000 of a meter; 1.0 mm – 0.03937 inches or 5/127 (exactly) 1.0 mm – side of a square of area 1 mm²; 1.0 mm – diameter of a pinhead; 1.5 mm – average length of a flea [27]

  7. History of measurement - Wikipedia

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    He proposed calling his base unit of length a "foot" which he suggested should be either 3 ⁄ 10 or 1 ⁄ 3 of the length of a pendulum that had a period of one second—that is 3 ⁄ 10 or 1 ⁄ 3 of the "standard" proposed by John Wilkins over a century previously. This would have equated to 11.755 English inches (29.8 cm) or 13.06 English ...

  8. Pound (mass) - Wikipedia

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    The first schedule of the act gave more details of the standard pound: it is a platinum cylinder nearly 1.35 inches (34 mm) high, and 1.15 inches (29 mm) diameter, and the edges are carefully rounded off. It has a groove about 0.34 inches (8.6 mm) from the top, to allow the cylinder to be lifted using an ivory fork.

  9. Soil moisture - Wikipedia

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    A historic surface soil moisture change in the Horn of Africa from August 2020 - December 2022. Soil moisture is the water content of the soil. It can be expressed in terms of volume or weight. Soil moisture measurement can be based on in situ probes (e.g., capacitance probes, neutron probes) or remote sensing methods. [1] [2]