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Finger is also the name of a longer unit of length, used historically in cloth measurement, to mean one eighth of a yard or 4 1 / 2 inches. [8] [10] (114.3 mm) Again, which finger and whose finger, is not defined. These units have no legal status but remain in use for 'rough and ready' comparisons.
Hand - breadth of a human hand; Klafter - German measure of outstretched hands; League - the distance a person can walk in an hour (by one definition) Orgyia - Ancient Greek fathom; Parasang - the distance an infantryman could march in a predefined period of time; Pygmē - distance from elbow to base of fingers; Sazhen - Russian fathom
Hand strength measurements are of interest to study pathology of the hand that involves loss of muscle strength. Examples of these pathologies are carpal tunnel syndrome , nerve injury , tendon injuries of the hand, and neuromuscular disorders.
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Hand geometry is a biometric that identifies users from the shape of their hands. Hand geometry readers measure a user's palm and fingers along many dimensions including length, width, deviation, and angle and compare those measurements to measurements stored in a file.
A span is the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. In ancient times, a span was considered to be half a cubit. Sometimes the distinction is made between the great span or full span (thumb to little finger) and little span or short span (thumb to index finger, or index finger to little ...
Thus, a horse that measures 60 inches is 15 hands high (15 × 4 = 60) and a horse halfway between 15 and 16 hands is 15.2 hands, or 62 inches tall (15 × 4 + 2 = 62) [5] [7] Because the subdivision of a hand is a base 4 system, a horse 64 inches high is 16.0 hands high, not 15.4. [2]