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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The Jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one femtometre (about the diameter of a nucleon). The Planck time is the time that light takes to travel one Planck length. The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually

  3. Minute and second of arc - Wikipedia

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    The Earth's rotational rate around its own axis is 15 minutes of arc per minute of time (360 degrees / 24 hours in day); the Earth's rotational rate around the Sun (not entirely constant) is roughly 24 minutes of time per minute of arc (from 24 hours in day), which tracks the annual progression of the Zodiac.

  4. Foot per second - Wikipedia

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    The foot per second (plural feet per second) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity, which includes direction). [1] It expresses the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time in seconds (s). [2] The corresponding unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the meter per second.

  5. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Smoot was 5 feet, 7 inches, or 170 cm, tall. [18] Google Earth and Google Calculator include the smoot as a unit of measurement. The Cambridge (Massachusetts) police department adopted the convention of using Smoots to measure the locations of accidents and incidents on the bridge.

  6. Light-second - Wikipedia

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    The light-second is a unit of length useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics. It is defined as the distance that light travels in free space in one second , and is equal to exactly 299 792 458 m (approximately 983 571 055 ft or 186 282 miles ).

  7. 30 Times People’s Lives Did A Huge 180 And It Sent ... - AOL

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    The beauty of having free will is that at any point you can decide to fundamentally overhaul your life. Is it beyond difficult? For sure! But if you find yourself disillusioned with your health ...

  8. Clock angle problem - Wikipedia

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    The time is usually based on a 12-hour clock. A method to solve such problems is to consider the rate of change of the angle in degrees per minute. The hour hand of a normal 12-hour analogue clock turns 360° in 12 hours (720 minutes) or 0.5° per minute. The minute hand rotates through 360° in 60 minutes or 6° per minute. [1]

  9. The country did a complete 180 on a once-divisive issue ...

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    He pointed to data from Gallup, which saw the portion of the population who identify as LGBTQ more than double from 3.5% in 2012, when the organization first started asking people about their ...