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2. Foot-lambert - Wikipedia

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   A foot-lambert or footlambert (fL, sometimes fl or ft-L) is a unit of luminance in United States customary units and some other unit systems. A foot-lambert equals 1/π or 0.3183 candela per square foot, or 3.426 candela per square meter (the corresponding SI unit ). The foot-lambert is named after Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss ...

3. Korean units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Korean units of measurement, called cheokgwan-beop ( Korean : 척관법; Hanja : 尺貫法) or cheokgeun-beop ( 척근법; 尺斤法) in Korean, is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Korean peninsula. It is largely based on the Chinese system, with influence from Japanese standards imposed following its annexation ...

4. Pyeong - Wikipedia

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   Kanji. 坪. Kana. つぼ. Transcriptions. Romanization. tsubo. A pyeong (abbreviation py) is a Korean unit of area and floorspace, equal to a square kan or 36 square Korean feet. The ping and tsubo are its equivalent Taiwanese and Japanese units, similarly based on a square bu ( ja:步) or ken, equivalent to 36 square Chinese or Japanese feet ...

5. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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   In the metric system, the mass per unit area of all types of textiles is expressed in grams per square metre (g/m 2 ). The gram (alternative spelling: gramme; SI unit symbol: g) is a metric system unit of mass. A gram is defined as one thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or 1 × 10−3 kg.

6. List of examples of lengths - Wikipedia

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   30.48 cm = 3.048 dm — 1 foot. 30 cm = 3 dm — typical school-use ruler length (= 300 mm) 60 cm = 6 dm — standard depth (front to back) of a domestic kitchen worktop in Europe (= 600 mm) 90 cm = 9 dm — average length of a rapier, a fencing sword [ 35] 91.44 cm = 9.144 dm — one yard. Cigarettes 100 mm (4 in) in length.

7. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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   Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property ...