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A board foot is a United States and Canadian unit of approximate volume, used for lumber. It is equivalent to 1 inch × 1 foot × 1 foot (144 cu in or 2,360 cm 3). It is also found in the unit of density pounds per board foot. In Australia and New Zealand the terms super foot or superficial foot were formerly used for this unit. The exact ...
Ligne – a French unit of length, roughly equal to 2.25 mm (0.089 in), or 9 points; Line; Macedonian cubit; Pace; Palm; Parasang; Pes; Pyramid inch – a unit of length, believed to be equal to 1 ⁄ 25 of the cubit; Rod; Sana lamjel; Spat – a unit of length equal to 1,000,000,000 km (620,000,000 mi) Stadion; Step; Unglie
The unit is used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge. Canonically, and originally, in 1958 when Smoot was a Lambda Chi Alpha pledge at MIT (class of 1962), the bridge was measured to be 364.4 Smoots, plus or minus one ear, using Mr. Smoot himself as a ruler. [17] At the time, Smoot was 5 feet, 7 inches, or 170 cm, tall. [18]
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 ...
The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [10] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [11] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)
His 5 feet 5 inches stature is often used as a foil to larger actors, like in the Jumanji movies where he was cast opposite big guy Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. JStone/shutterstock Daniel Radcliffe
The renovators at the Massachusetts Highway Department also scored the concrete surface of the sidewalk on the bridge at 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) intervals instead of the conventional 6 feet (1.83 m). [18] The Lambda Zeta (MIT) chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha, which created the smoot markings, continues to repaint the markings once or twice per year ...
He was unsuccessful in introducing a standard unit of length throughout his realm: an analysis of the measurements of Charlieu Abbey shows that during the 9th century the Roman foot of 296.1 mm (11.66 in) was used; when it was rebuilt in the 10th century, a foot of about 320 mm (12.6 in) [Note 1] was used. At the same time, monastic buildings ...