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2. Spanish units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   It was used in the archaic system of old Spanish land grants affecting Texas and parts of adjoining states and this use of league is used throughout the Texas Constitution. A common Texas land grant size, discussed in James A. Michener 's Texas , was a " labor and a league": a labor of good riparian land and a (square) league of land away from ...

3. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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   The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

4. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Planck units is system of geometrized units in which the reduced Planck constant is included in the list of defining constants. It is based on only properties of free space rather than of any object or particle. Stoney units is a system of geometrized units in which the Coulomb constant and the elementary charge are included.

5. Imperial system of units - Wikipedia

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   Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Imperial system of units

6. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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   In 1824, these units were replaced with a single system based on the imperial gallon. [a] Originally defined as the volume of 10 pounds (4.54 kg) of distilled water (under certain conditions), [b] then redefined by the Weights and Measures Act 1985 to be exactly 4.546 09 L (277.4 cu in), the imperial gallon is close in size to the old ale gallon.

7. Puerto Rican units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   This was a unit of land measurement in the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas during the times of the Spanish Empire in the 16th through 19th centuries Puerto Rico. Widely used then, [2] it was equivalent to 78.58 hectares (194.2 acres). [3] This unit of measure is now (2019) obsolete. [4]