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  2. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The foot (standard symbol: ft) [1][2] is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. [3] In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in 1959 ...

  3. Inch - Wikipedia

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    1 / 36 ⁠ yd or ⁠ 1 / 12 ⁠ ft. Metric (SI) units. 25.4 mm. A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to ⁠ 1 36 ⁠ yard or ⁠ 1 12 ⁠ of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word inch is ...

  4. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    Length. For measuring length, the U.S. customary system uses the inch, foot, yard, and mile, which are the only four customary length measurements in everyday use. From 1893, the foot was legally defined as exactly 1200⁄3937 m (approximately 0.304 8006 m). [13] Since July 1, 1959, the units of length have been defined on the basis of 1 yd = 0 ...

  5. Fathom - Wikipedia

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    1.8288 metres exactly (Official international definition of the fathom) [10] 1.828804 m (Obsolete measurement of the fathom based on the US survey foot, only for use of historical and legacy applications) [11] 2 yards (1 yard is exactly 1 ⁄ 2 fathom) 6 feet (1 foot is exactly 16 fathom) 18 hands; 72 inches; 1 metre is about 0.5468 fathoms

  6. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2][3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system. [4][5]

  7. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Table of length units. 1⁄12 of a ligne. This unit is usually called the Truchet point in English. Prior to the French Revolution the Fournier point was also in use. It was 16 of a ligne or 1⁄864 of the smaller French foot. 1⁄12 of a pouce. This corresponds to the line, a traditional English unit. 1⁄12 of a pied du roi.

  8. Ancient Roman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    inch thumb 1 ⁄ 12 pes 24.6 mm ... converted at 1 pes = 0.9708 English feet and 296 mm respectively. ... (where it had a value closer to 10.5 km or 6 + 1 ...

  9. List of scale model sizes - Wikipedia

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    At 1 inch in this scale = 6 feet (man's height) in the real world. Aircraft, science fiction, space non fiction, figures, vehicles, and watercraft. Now the most prolific [ 11 ] small scale (i.e. less than 1:35) for plastic injection armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) models, and also plastic model figurines and scale model vehicles and aircraft by ...