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27.43 meters – distance between bases on a baseball field (90 feet) 28 meters – length of a standard FIBA basketball court; 28.65 meters – length of an NBA basketball court (94 feet) 49 meters – width of an American football field (53 1 ⁄ 3 yards) 59.436 meters – width of a Canadian football field (65 yards)
Normal-size passenger vehicles, commonly called "3 number" in reference to their license-plate prefix (trucks and buses over 2000 cc have license plates numbers beginning with 1 and 2 respectively), are those more than 4.7 m (15.4 ft) long, 1.7 m (5.6 ft) wide, 2 m (6.6 ft) high or with engine displacement larger than 2,000 cc (120 cu in). This ...
Train length: 218,952 mm (718 ft 4.2 in) ... Width: 3.22 m (10 ft 6.8 in) Height: 4.18 m (13 ft 8.6 in) (excluding roof equipment) ... similar to pre-merger MTR ...
The size of ships that could transit the canal, called Panamax, was constrained by the size of the locks, which are 110 ft (33.53 m) wide and 1,050 ft (320.04 m) long, and 41.2 ft (12.56 m) deep. The third set of locks allow transit of larger, Post-Panamax ships, which have a greater cargo capacity than the current locks can handle.
The Greek foot (πούς, pous) had a length of 1 / 600 of a stadion, [12] one stadion being about 181.2 m (594 ft); [13] therefore a foot was, at the time, about 302 mm (11.9 in). Its exact size varied from city to city and could range between 270 mm (10.6 in) and 350 mm (13.8 in), but lengths used for temple construction appear to ...
Legua nautica (nautical league): Between 1400 and 1600 the Spanish nautical league was equal to four Roman miles of 4,842 feet, making it 19,368 feet (5,903 metres or 3.1876 modern nautical miles). However, the accepted number of Spanish nautical leagues to a degree varied between 14 1/6 to 16 2/3, so in actual practice the length of a Spanish ...
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.
A number of units were used to measure length. One depa was equal to 1.70 m by its legal definition. [2] [1] Some other units and their legal equivalents are given below: 1 hasta = 1 ⁄ 4 depa 1 kilan = 1 ⁄ 8 depa. [2] [1]