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2. Cubit - Wikipedia

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   The ancient Egyptian royal cubit (meh niswt) is the earliest attested standard measure.Cubit rods were used for the measurement of length.A number of these rods have survived: two are known from the tomb of Maya, the treasurer of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, in Saqqara; another was found in the tomb of Kha in Thebes.

3. Digit (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The digit or finger is an ancient and obsolete non-SI unit of measurement of length. It was originally based on the breadth of a human finger. [1] It was a fundamental unit of length in the Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Roman systems of measurement. In astronomy a digit is one twelfth of the diameter of the sun or ...

4. Joint European standard for size labelling of clothes

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   For some types of garment, a single measure may not be sufficient to select the right product. In these cases, one or two "secondary dimensions" can be added to the label. The following table shows the primary (in bold) and secondary dimensions listed in the standard, leaving out the redundant words girth, length and size for better overview.

5. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   GB/T 1335.1-2008 Size designation of clothes - Men; GB/T 1335.2-2008 Size designation of clothes - Women; GB/T 1335.3-2008 Size designation of clothes - Children; GB/T 2668-2002 Sizes for coats, jackets and trousers; GB/T 14304-2002 Sizes for woolen garments

6. Ell - Wikipedia

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   Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln). Prussian ell. An ell (from Proto-Germanic *alinō, cognate with Latin ulna) [1] is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand).

7. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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   ell or cubit; foot; perch, used variously to measure length or area; acre and acre's breadth; furlong; mile; The best-attested of these is the perch, which varied in length from 10 to 25 feet, with the most common value (16 1 ⁄ 2 feet or 5.03 m) remaining in use until the twentieth century. [1]