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  2. Maltese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Table of length units. The Maltese inch. Exactly 55⁄64 imperial inches. This unit is not in the 1921 act. The Maltese hand span, equivalent to the foot. Exactly 10 + 5⁄16 imperial inches. This is exactly 82 + 1⁄2 inches, or 6 ft 10 + 1⁄2 in. It corresponds to the fathom, but was used in both land and sea contexts.

  3. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    The acre-foot is a non- SI unit of volume equal to about 1,233 m 3 commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water, [1] and river flows. An acre-foot equals approximately an eight-lane swimming pool, 82 ft (25 m) long, 52 ft (16 m) wide ...

  4. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod is useful as a unit of length because integer multiples of it can form one acre of square measure (area). The 'perfect acre' [2] is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square ...

  5. Acre - Wikipedia

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    The entire yellow square is one square mile; the dark blue area at right represents 100 acres. The acre (/ ˈeɪkər / AY-kər) is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square ...

  6. Ancient Roman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Length. [] Roman milestone in modern Austria (AD 201), indicating a distance of 28 Roman miles (~41 km) to Teurnia. The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural: pedes) or Roman foot. Investigation of its relation to the English foot goes back at least to 1647, when John Greaves published his Discourse on the Romane foot.

  7. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The only exceptions to this rule are special requirements for measurement in feet in mineral surveys and townsite surveys. [13] Linear Measurement 1 Chain = 100 links or 66 feet 1 Mile = 80 chains or 5,280 feet. Area Measurement 1 Acre = 10 square chains or 43,560 square feet 1 square mile = 640 acres

  8. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A square 5 perches on each side, or one quarter of an acre. acre, or. arpent carré. 48 400. ~5107 m 2. ~6108 sq yd, or. ~1.262 acres. The French acre is a square 10 perches (one arpent) on each side. (Does not exactly correspond to the English acre, which is defined as 43 560 square feet.)

  9. Irish measure - Wikipedia

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    History. The size of the mile and acre are derived from the length of the surveyor's rod, a unit which in Ireland was called a perch (or linear perch to distinguish it from the square perch). A mile is 320 linear perches and an acre is 160 square perches. The length of the perch was not standardised nationwide at the time of the Tudor conquest ...