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  2. Twenty-foot equivalent unit - Wikipedia

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    The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. [1] It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks.

  3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Horizontal pitch (HP) is a unit of length defined by the Eurocard printed circuit board standard used to measure the horizontal width of rack mounted electronic equipment, similar to the rack unit (U) used to measure vertical heights of rack mounted equipment. One HP is 0.2 inches (1/5") or 5.08 millimetres wide.

  4. Container ship - Wikipedia

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    1,200 ft (366 m) and longer 160.7 ft (49 m) and wider 49.9 ft (15.2 m) and deeper With a length of 400 m, a beam of 59 m, draft of 14.5 m, and a capacity of 18,270 TEU, ships of the Maersk Triple E class are able to transit the Suez canal. [35] Photo: MV Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller: New Panamax (or Neopanamax) 10,000–14,500 1,200 ft (366 m)

  5. Local number portability - Wikipedia

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    Local number portability (LNP) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability (FMNP) for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a "customer of record" of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier (LEC) to reassign the number to another carrier ("service provider portability"), move it to another location ("geographic portability"), or ...

  6. Sea level rise - Wikipedia

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    Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 in), with an increase of 2.3 mm (0.091 in) per year since the 1970s. [3]: 1216 This was faster than the sea level had ever risen over at least the past 3,000 years. [3]: 1216 The rate accelerated to 4.62 mm (0.182 in)/yr for the decade 2013–2022. [4]

  7. Tidal range - Wikipedia

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    The typical tidal range in the open ocean is about 1 metre (3 feet) – mapped in blue and green at right. Mean ranges near coasts vary from near zero to 11.7 metres (38.4 feet), [ 4 ] with the range depending on the volume of water adjacent to the coast, and the geography of the basin the water sits in. Larger bodies of water have higher ...

  8. Mobile number portability - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, after porting to a new provider the number would be locked in for 90 days. GrameenPhone, Robi, Airtel-bd, Banglalink all operator can port own Number. The duration for the process is 7 days and the time a number is deactivated for portability is about 2 hours. [24] China (mainland) Phase I: 2010.11 (in Tianjin and Hainan)

  9. Richter scale - Wikipedia

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    The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]