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Cable length: Length: Fathom: Length: Knot: Speed: League: Length: Nautical mile: Length: Rhumb: Angle: The angle between two successive points of the thirty-two point compass (11 degrees 15 minutes) (rare) [1] Shackle: Length: Before 1949, 12.5 fathoms; later 15 fathoms. [2] Toise: Length: Toise was also used for measures of area and volume ...
A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems equal to 6 feet (1.8288 m), used especially for measuring the depth of water. [1]
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)
≡ 0.3048 m ≡ 1 ⁄ 3 yd ≡ 12 inches ≡ 0.3048 m ... ≡ 1 ⁄ 72.272 in: ≈ 0. ... The angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc whose length is ...
Table of length units Unit Relative value Metric value Imperial value Notes linja: 1 ⁄ 144 ~2.06 mm ~0.081 in = Swedish linje; 1 ⁄ 12 of a tuuma (tum), i.e. 1 ⁄ 144 of a jalka (fot) tuuma: 1 ⁄ 12 ~24.74 mm ~0.97 in = Swedish tum, defined as 1 ⁄ 12 of a jalka (fot), nominally the width of a thumb. Inch translates into tuuma in Finnish ...
A cable's length (often "cable length" or just "cable") is simply the standard length in which cables came, which by 1555 had settled to around 100 fathoms (600 ft; 180 m) or 1 ⁄ 10 nautical mile (0.19 km; 0.12 mi). [1] Traditionally rope is made on long ropewalks, the length of which determines the maximum length of rope it is possible to make.
Beam – A measure of the width of the ship. There are two types: Beam, Overall (BOA), commonly referred to simply as Beam – The overall width of the ship measured at the widest point of the nominal waterline. Beam on Centerline (BOC) – Used for multihull vessels. The BOC for vessels is measured as follows: For a catamaran: the ...
Width of the hand and outstretched thumb, 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches before 12th century, 6 thereafter [14] Link: 201.2 mm: 7.92 inches or one 100th of a chain. [15] (A modern Indian surveyor's chain has 200 mm links.) Span: 228.6 mm: Width of the outstretched hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, 3 palms = 9 inches. Foot ...