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Lichas - thumb length. This is a list of units of measurement based on human body parts or the attributes and abilities of humans (anthropometric units). It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based. These units are thus considered to be human scale and anthropocentric.
Horses are used to measure distances in horse racing – a horse length (shortened to merely a length when the context makes it obvious) equals roughly 8 feet or 2.4 metres. Shorter distances are measured in fractions of a horse length; also common are measurements of a full or fraction of a head, a neck, or a nose. [9]
The Egyptian equivalent of the foot—a measure of four palms or 16 digits—was known as the djeser and has been reconstructed as about 30 cm (11.8 in). The Greek foot (πούς, pous) had a length of 1 / 600 of a stadion, [12] one stadion being about 181.2 m (594 ft); [13] therefore a foot was, at the time, about 302 mm (11.9 in). Its ...
When a barn (a very small unit of area used for measuring the cross sectional area of atomic nuclei) is multiplied by a megaparsec (a very large unit of length used for measuring the distances between galaxies), the result is a human-scaled unit of volume approximately equal to 2 ⁄ 3 of a teaspoon (about 3 mL). [30] [31]
The armspan is marked equal to the stature of the subject. Leonardo da Vinci developed rules for drawing human proportions. For example, human body height is to be the length of eight heads, with an additional one-quarter head for neck length. Leg length is to be four head lengths. [1]
Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.
The list does not contain cat hybrids, such as the liger or tigon. List ... Maximum length (m) [a] Shoulder height (cm) Native range by continent(s) Range map 1 Tiger:
cubit: traditionally 2 Arabic feet, later 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 Arabic feet Cubit قامة: fathom: 6 Arabic feet ~1.92 m A pace-length Qaṣbah قصبة: 12 Arabic feet ~3.84 m A cane-length Seir: stade: 600 Arabic feet ~192 m Ghalwah: 720 Arabic feet ~230.4 m Parasang فرسخ: parasang or league: 18,000 Arabic feet ~5.76 km Barid بريد: 4 parasang ...