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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    6.259 Mm Length of the Great Wall of China: 6.371 Mm Average radius of Earth: 6.378 Mm Equatorial radius of Earth 6.6 Mm Approximate length of the two longest rivers, the Nile and the Amazon: 7.821 Mm Length of the Trans-Canada Highway: 9.288 Mm Length of the Trans-Siberian Railway, longest in the world

  3. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The last is typically longer than the foot heel to toe length by 4 ⁄ 3 cm (13.33 mm) to 5 ⁄ 3 cm (16.67 mm), or 2 to 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 Paris points, so to determine the shoe size based on actual foot length one must add 2 Paris points.

  4. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000

  5. Display size - Wikipedia

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    Flat panel displays by contrast use the actual diagonal of their visible display size, thus the size is the actual size presented to the viewer in all markets. This means that a similarly specified size of display will be larger as a flat panel display compared with a cathode ray tube display.

  6. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The toise has 6 pieds (feet) each of 326.6 mm (12.9 in). He was unsuccessful in introducing a standard unit of length throughout his realm: an analysis of the measurements of Charlieu Abbey shows that during the 9th century the Roman foot of 296.1 mm (11.66 in) was used; when it was rebuilt in the 10th century, a foot of about 320 mm (12.6 in ...

  7. Nominal Pipe Size - Wikipedia

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    Nominal Pipe Size (NPS) is a North American set of standard sizes for pipes used for high or low pressures and temperatures. [1] " Nominal" refers to pipe in non-specific terms and identifies the diameter of the hole with a non-dimensional number (for example – 2-inch nominal steel pipe" consists of many varieties of steel pipe with the only criterion being a 2.375-inch (60.3 mm) outside ...

  8. M42 lens mount - Wikipedia

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    It is more accurately known as the M42 × 1 mm standard, which means that it is a metric screw thread of 42 mm diameter and 1 mm thread pitch. (The M42 lens mount should not be confused with the T-mount , which shares the 42 mm throat diameter, but differs by having a 0.75 mm thread pitch.)

  9. Millimetre - Wikipedia

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    Different lengths as in respect to the electromagnetic spectrum, measured by the metre and its derived scales.The microwave is between 1 meter to 1 millimeter.. The millimetre (international spelling; SI unit symbol mm) or millimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.