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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    2 cm – approximate width of an adult human finger; 2.54 cm – 1 inch; 3.08568 cm – 1 attoparsec; 3.4 cm – length of a quail egg [112] 3.5 cmwidth of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography; 3.78 cm – amount of distance the Moon moves away from Earth each year [113] 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball ...

  3. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Badda Thana - Wikipedia

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    Badda Thana is located near the north-eastern part of Dhaka, at It extends on both sides of Rampura Road and Progoti Avenue. [4] Covering a total area of 36.84 km 2 (14.22 sq mi), the thana shares its borders with Khilkhet Thana to the north, Khilgaon Thana to the south, Rupganj Upazila to the east, and Gulshan, Cantonment, and Rampura thanas to the west, as of 2012.

  5. Tree girth measurement - Wikipedia

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    The Tule tree has a diameter of 38 feet 1.4 inches (1,161.8 cm) as measured by tape wrap, but because of its irregularity a cross-sectional wood area expressed as a circle gave an effective diameter of only 30 feet 9 inches (937 cm). The base of the tree was mapped in three dimensions using a frame mapping technique.

  6. List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

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    TD – target depth; TD – total depth (depth of the end of the well; also a verb, to reach the final depth, used as an acronym in this case [citation needed]) TDD – total depth (driller) TDC - Top Dead Center; TDC – total drilling cost; TDL – total depth (logger) TDM – touch-down monitoring; TDP – touch-down point; TDS – top drive ...

  7. Ex pede Herculem - Wikipedia

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    The principle was raised to an axiom of biology by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, in On Growth and Form, 1917; it has found dependable use in paleontology, where the measurements of a fossil jawbone or a single vertebra offer a close approximation of the size of a long-extinct animal, in cases where comparable animals are already known.

  8. Bird measurement - Wikipedia

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    Bird measurement or bird biometrics are approaches to quantify the size of birds in scientific studies. The variation in dimensions and weights across birds is one of the fundamental sources of diversity among birds, and even Within species, dimensions may vary across populations within species , between the sexes and depending on age and ...

  9. Joint European standard for size labelling of clothes

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    The product should not be labelled with the average body dimension for which the garment was designed (i.e., not "height: 176 cm."). Instead, the label should show the range of body dimensions from half the step size below to half the step size above the design size (e.g., "height: 172–180 cm.").