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  2. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  3. Rood (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains , or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod).

  4. Furlong - Wikipedia

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    The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and square yards in an acre. The definition of the rod went from 15 old feet to 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 new feet, or from 5 old yards to 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 new yards. The furlong went from 600 old feet to 660 new feet, or from 200 old yards to 220 ...

  5. Help:Convert units - Wikipedia

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    {{convert|1.2|km2|acre+sqyd+ha}} → 1.2 square kilometres (300 acres; 1,400,000 sq yd; 120 ha) In the following, because "board feet" contains a space, using a space to make a combination fails. {{convert|123|cuyd|m3 board feet}} → 123 cubic yards ([convert: unknown unit]) {{convert|123|cuyd|m3+board feet}} → 123 cubic yards (94 m 3 ...

  6. English units - Wikipedia

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    An area of land one chain (four rods) wide by one furlong in length. As the traditional furlong could vary in length from country to country, so did the acre. In England an acre was 4,840 square yards (4,050 m 2), in Scotland 6,150 square yards (5,140 m 2) and in Ireland 7,840 square yards (6,560 m 2). It is a Saxon unit, meaning "field ...

  7. Cubic mile - Wikipedia

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    A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi 3 [1]) is an imperial and US customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (1.6 km ) length, giving a volume of 1 cubic mile (4.2 km 3 ).

  8. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly contended that customary area units are defined in terms of the square survey foot, not the square international foot, [17] but from 2023 it states that "although historically defined using the U.S. survey foot, the statute mile can be defined using either definition of the foot, as is ...

  9. Acre - Wikipedia

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    One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.