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2. Mortise lock - Wikipedia

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   The two main parts of a mortise lock. Left: the lock body, installed in the thickness of a door. This example has two bolts: a sprung latch at the top, and a locking bolt at the bottom.

3. Link (unit) - Wikipedia

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   In many measurement systems based on former English units, the link has remained fixed at 0.66 feet, therefore 0.22 yards or 7.92 inches; it is the absolute length of the yard that has varied.

4. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   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] [5] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [6] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)

5. Ell - Wikipedia

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   Ells are used for measuring the length of rope in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. [15] Since Sam declares that 30 elles are "about" 18 fathoms (108 feet), he seems to be using the 45-inch English ell, which would work out to 112 feet. In the epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Green Knight's axe-head was an ell (45 inches ...

6. Couple Charged with Child Abuse After Botched Home ...

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   A Missouri couple has been charged with child abuse after police claim they performed a circumcision on a child at their home despite not having the medical training to do so.

7. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Parsecs are used in astronomy to measure interstellar distances. A parsec is approximately 3.26 light-years or about 3.086×10 16 m (1.917×10 13 mi ). Combining it with the " atto- " prefix (×10 −18 ) yields attoparsec (apc), a conveniently human-scaled unit of about 3.086 centimetres (1.215 in) that is used only humorously.

8. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Make Her ...

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   AP Photo/Alex Brandon. Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on March 23, 2022

9. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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   The amount of time light takes to travel one Planck length. quectosecond: 10 −30 s: One nonillionth of a second. rontosecond: 10 −27 s: One octillionth of a second. yoctosecond: 10 −24 s: One septillionth of a second. jiffy (physics) 3 × 10 −24 s: The amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a ...