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2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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   12 meters – height of a saguaro cactus; 12 meters – length of a whale shark, largest living fish; 12 meters – wingspan of a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur; 12.8 meters – length of a Titanoboa, the largest snake to have ever lived; 13 meters – length of a giant squid and colossal squid, the largest living invertebrates

3. Scale ruler - Wikipedia

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   An engineer's scale is a tool for measuring distances and transferring measurements at a fixed ratio of length. It is commonly made of plastic or aluminum and is just over 300 millimetres (12 in) long, but with the only 300 mm of markings, leaving the ends unmarked so that the first and last measuring ticks do not wear off.

4. French catheter scale - Wikipedia

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   The French scale, also known as the ... is a widely used measurement system for the size of catheters. ... 0.12 10 10.5 3.33 0.13 11 11.5 3.67 0.14 12 12.6

5. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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   In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 meters. Historically, the "foot" was a part of many local systems of units, including the Greek, Roman, Chinese, French, and English systems. It varied in ...

6. Metre-stick - Wikipedia

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   Two wooden yardsticks with brass ends, in inches and division of yard for half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth A folding metre-stick carpenter's ruler with millimetre divisions and numbers in centimetres. Fully extended it measures 2 metres. In countries in which the metric system is used, the scale typically contains only a metric scale.

7. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   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] [10] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [11] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)