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The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) [1] is an English and British imperial unit of mass equal to 14 avoirdupois pounds (6.35 kg). [nb 1] The stone continues in customary use in the United Kingdom and Ireland for body weight . England and other Germanic -speaking countries of Northern Europe formerly used various standardised "stones ...
stång – 16 fot, for land measurement; ref – 160 fot, for land measurement, was 100 fot after 1855. stenkast – Stone's throw, approx 50 m, used to this day as an approximate measure. fjärdingsväg – 1 ⁄ 4 mil; skogsmil – Also rast, distance between rests in the woods, approx 5 km. nymil – New mile from 1889, 10 km exactly.
Such scales are used to make the most accurate of fine measurements, such as in the needs of empirical chemistry. Avoirdupois ( / ˌævərdəˈpɔɪz, ˌævwɑːrdjuːˈpwɑː /; [ 1] abbreviated avdp.) [ 2] is a measurement system of weights that uses pounds and ounces as units. [ 3][ 4] It was first commonly used in the 13th century AD and ...
The definition of units of weight above a pound differed between the customary and the imperial system - the imperial system employed the stone of 14 pounds, the hundredweight of 8 stone [Note 6] and the ton of 2240 pounds (20 hundredweight), while the customary system of units did not employ the stone but has a hundredweight of 100 pounds and ...
Armourstone. Armourstone is a generic term for broken stone with stone masses between 100 and 10,000 kilograms (220 and 22,050 lb) (very coarse aggregate) that is suitable for use in hydraulic engineering. Dimensions and characteristics for armourstone are laid down in European Standard EN13383. [ 1] In the United States, there are a number of ...
Today only the stone continues in customary use for measuring personal body weight. The present stone is 14 pounds (~6.35 kg), but an earlier unit appears to have been 16 pounds (~7.25 kg). The other units were multiples of 2, 8, and 160 times the stone, or 28, 112, and 2240 pounds (~12.7 kg, 50.8 kg, 1016 kg), respectively.
The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.
Moved monoliths. The 1,250 t heavy Thunder Stone in Saint Petersburg. On top is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great. The 53.3 t heavy capital block (the rectangular platform fitted with a railing) of Trajan's Column in Rome, Italy, was lifted by Roman cranes to a record height of about 34 m.