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  2. Height - Wikipedia

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    Height is measure of vertical distance, either vertical extent (how "tall" something or someone is) or vertical position (how "high" a point is). For an example of vertical extent, "This basketball player is 7 foot 1 inches in height." For an example of vertical position, "The height of an airplane in-flight is about 10,000 meters."

  3. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.

  4. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that the ideal human figure has its navel at the golden ratio (, about 1.618), dividing the body in the ratio of 0.618 to 0.382 (soles of feet to navel:navel to top of head) (1 ⁄ is -1, about 0.618) and Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is cited as evidence. [23]

  5. Waves grow up to 13 feet tall in California as Earth warms ...

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    Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the ...

  6. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Its exact size varied from city to city and could range between 270 mm (10.6 in) and 350 mm (13.8 in), but lengths used for temple construction appear to have been about 295 mm (11.6 in) to 325 mm (12.8 in); the former was close to the size of the Roman foot.

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  8. Average human height by country - Wikipedia

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    Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. ... [13] [14] Algeria: 169.7 cm (5 ft 7 in) ... (N = 1,108,891 ...

  9. Tree height measurement - Wikipedia

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    In September 2012, it was measured at 115.72 meters (379.7 feet) tall. [6] There are 7 other coastal redwoods known to be over 112 meters (367 feet) in height, and 222 specimens over 105 meters (344 feet). [7] There are only five species known to grow over 91 meters (299 feet) in height worldwide. [8]