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2.54 centimeters (1 inch is exactly 2.54 cm) 25.4 millimetres (1 inch is exactly 25.4 mm) 1 / 12 or 0.08333 feet 1 / 36 or 0.2777 yards; 10000 'tenths' [a] 1000 thou [b] or mil [c] 100 points [d] or gries [e] 72 PostScript points [f] 10, [g] [e] 12, [h] or 40 [i] lines; 6 computer picas [j] 3 barleycorns [k] 0.999998 US Survey ...
Dots per inch (DPI, or dpi [1]) is a measure of spatial printing, video or image scanner dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch (2.54 cm).
1.2 cm – length of a bee; 1.2 cm – diameter of a die; 1.5 cm – length of a very large mosquito; 1.6 cm – length of a Jaragua Sphaero, a very small reptile; 1.7 cm – length of a Thorius arboreus, the smallest salamander [111] 2 cm – approximate width of an adult human finger; 2.54 cm – 1 inch; 3.08568 cm – 1 attoparsec
The system was slightly revised in 1735. In 1855, a decimal reform was instituted that defined a new Swedish inch as 1 ⁄ 10 Swedish foot (2.96 cm or 1.17 inches). Up to the middle of the 19th century, there was a law allowing the imposition of the death penalty for falsifying weights or measures.
1-inch Type C Helical Scan or SMPTE C is a professional reel-to-reel analog recording helical scan videotape format co-developed and introduced by Ampex and Sony in 1976. It became the replacement in the professional video and broadcast television industries for the then-incumbent 2-inch quadruplex videotape (2-inch Quad for short) open-reel format.
Skull of a Senegalese golden wolf from the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. It is at least an inch (2.54 centimeters) higher at the shoulder, and several inches longer than the Egyptian wolf; [3] adult Senegalese golden wolves are about 15 inches (38.1 cm) high on the midsection and 14 inches (35.56 cm) in length from tail to occiput.
The Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval fired a shell with a diameter of 6 inches. Used in the period 1668–1840, the French inch (French: pouce) measured 2.707 centimeters while the English inch was only 2.54 centimeters. [12] One authority stated that the barrel of the 6-inch howitzer weighed 650 pounds (295 kg). [13]
That was probably a typo for 2.54 cm. From teh Wiki article on Swedish "Tum" (inches): tum – Thumb (inch), after 1863 1/10 fot, 2.96 cm. Before that, 1/12 fot or 2.474 cm. So, to hazard a guess, today they probably just use dual international inch/cm tapes that are commercially available, unless they are working with legacy parts.