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  2. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    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. Commonly used to this day, normally referred to ...

  3. Milliradian - Wikipedia

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    For instance the same angle of 0.1 mrad will subtend 10 mm at 100 meters, 20 mm at 200 meters, etc., or similarly 0.39 inches at 100 m, 0.78 inches at 200 m, etc. Subtensions in mrad based optics are particularly useful together with target sizes and shooting distances in metric units. The most common scope adjustment increment in mrad based ...

  4. 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.

  5. Hesco bastion - Wikipedia

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    The Concertainer, [1] known colloquially as the Hesco barrier[2] or Hesco bastion, [3] with HESCO being the brand name of the manufacturer, is a modern gabion primarily used for flood control and military fortifications. [4] It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy-duty fabric liner and is used as a temporary to semi-permanent ...

  6. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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    25.4 μm. A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈθaʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand ...

  7. Swedish units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    linje – "line", after 1863 1⁄10 tum, 2.96 mm (0.117 in). Before that, 1⁄12 tum or 2.06 mm. mil – "mile", also lantmil. From 1699, defined as a unity mile of 18 000 alnar or 10.69 km (6.64 mi). The unified mile was meant to define the suitable distance between inns. After the 1889 metric conversion the Swedish mil is defined as exactly ...

  8. Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The different gur-cubes are related by proportion, based on the water gur-cube, according to four basic coefficients and their cubic roots. [citation needed] These coefficients are given as: Komma = 80 ⁄ 81 correction when planning rations with a 360-day year; Leimma = 24 ⁄ 25 conversion from decimal to a sexagesimal number system; Diesis ...

  9. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    The US Customary system of units makes use of set of dry units of capacity that have a similar set of names [Note 7] to those of liquid capacity, though different volumes: the dry pint having a volume of 33.6 cubic inches (550 ml) against the US fluid pint's volume of 28.875 cubic inches (473 ml) and the imperial pint of 34.68 cubic inches (568 ...