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  2. Pit sword - Wikipedia

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    The pit sword (also known as a rodmeter) is a blade of metal or plastic that extends into the water beneath the hull of a ship. [1] It is part of the pitometer log , a device for measuring the ship's speed through the water.

  3. Pitometer log - Wikipedia

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    Figure 2: Illustration of a Mercury Manometer-Based Pitometer Log. The basic technology of the pitometer log is similar to that of the pitot tube on an aircraft. Typically, the pitometer has a long tube that penetrates the ship's hull near the keel. The part of the pitometer protruding from the ship is sometimes called a pit sword or rodmeter ...

  4. Ring size - Wikipedia

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    Ring sizes can be measured physically by a paper, plastic, or metal ring sizer (as a gauge) or by measuring the inner diameter of a ring that already fits. Ring sticks are tools used to measure the inner size of a ring, and are typically made from plastic, delrin , wood, aluminium, or of multiple materials.

  5. Measuring rod - Wikipedia

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    A measuring rod is a tool used to physically measure lengths and survey areas of various sizes. Most measuring rods are round or square sectioned; however, they can also be flat boards. Some have markings at regular intervals. It is likely that the measuring rod was used before the line, chain or steel tapes used in modern measurement. [1]

  6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1.2 cm – length of a bee; 1.2 cmdiameter of a die; 1.5 cm – length of a very large mosquito; 1.6 cm – length of a Jaragua Sphaero, a very small reptile; 1.7 cm – length of a Thorius arboreus, the smallest salamander [111] 2 cm – approximate width of an adult human finger; 2.54 cm – 1 inch; 3.08568 cm – 1 attoparsec

  7. Rodmeter - Wikipedia

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  8. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  9. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

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    Measuring instruments in fiction: Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax contemplating thermometers, barometers, clocks, etc. in Jules Verne's 1869-1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas Fun measuring instruments: a Love Meter and strength tester machine at a Framingham, Massachusetts rest stop.

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