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  2. Inch - Wikipedia

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    1 international inch is equal to: 2.54 centimeters (1 inch is exactly 2.54 cm) ... The new standards gave an inch of exactly 25.4 mm, 1.7 millionths of an inch longer ...

  3. Cypriot units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    One pic was equal to 2 feet (0.6096 m). [2] [3] Prior to the adoption of the metric system for units of length in 1986, this was the base unit for length. Other units used were the following: 1 inch = 2.54 cm or 1 ⁄ 12 foot, 1 ⁄ 24 pic, or 1 ⁄ 36 yard 1 foot = 30.48 cm or 12 inches, 1 ⁄ 2 pic, or 1 ⁄ 3 yard 1 yard = 0.9144 m or 3 feet ...

  4. Board foot - Wikipedia

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    The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada [1].It equals the volume of a board that is one foot (30.5 cm) in length, one foot in width, and one inch (2.54 cm) in thickness, or exactly 2.359 737 216 liters.

  5. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    linje – Line, 1 ⁄ 12 tomme or approx. 2.18 mm; tomme – Thumb (inch), 1 ⁄ 12 fot, approx. 2.61 cm. This unit was commonly used for measuring timber until the 1970s. Nowadays, the word refers invariably to the Imperial inch, 2.54 cm. kvarter – Quarter, 1 ⁄ 4 alen. fot – Foot, 1 ⁄ 2 alen. From 1824, 31.374 cm.

  6. Historical Russian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Metric value English value; Russian Translation Cyrillic Transliteration; то́чка: toch'ka point 1 ⁄ 2800: 0.254 mm 1 ⁄ 100 inch ли́ния: liniya line 1 ⁄ 280: 2.54 mm 1 ⁄ 10 inch; cf. line: дюйм (перст) dyuym inch (finger) 1 ⁄ 28: 2.54 cm 1 inch вершо́к: vyershok tip, top 1 ⁄ 16: 4.445 cm 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 in; cf ...

  7. Dots per inch - Wikipedia

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    Actual size is approximately 1 ⁄ 4 by 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6 by 6 mm). Individual coloured droplets of ink are visible; this sample is about 150 DPI. Dots per inch (DPI, or dpi [1]) is a measure of spatial printing, video or image scanner dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch ...

  8. Dutch units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    one Amsterdam inch (Amsterdamse duim) was 2.573 93 cm; one Gelderland or Nijmegen inch (Gelderse of Nijmeegse duim) was 2.7 cm; one Rijnland inch (Rijnlandse duim) was 2.61 cm; When the "Dutch metric system" (Nederlands metriek stelsel) was introduced in 1820 the word duim was used for the centimeter, but

  9. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The centimetre (SI symbol: cm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10 −2 metres (⁠ 1 / 100 ⁠ m = 0.01 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 −2 m and 10 −1 m (1 cm and 1 dm). 1 cm – 10 millimeters; 1 cm – 0.39 inches; 1 cm – edge of a square of area 1 cm 2