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  2. Template:Convert/list of units/length - Wikipedia

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    1.0 m (3 ft 3 in) m ft (m foot) decimetre: dm dm US spelling: decimeter: 1.0 dm (3.9 in) centimetre: cm cm US spelling: centimeter: 1.0 cm (0.39 in) cm in; millimetre: mm mm US spelling: millimeter: 1.0 mm (0.039 in) mm in; micrometre: μm (um, micrometre) μm US spelling: micrometer: 1.0 μm (3.9 × 10 −5 in) nanometre: nm nm US spelling ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    13 cm = 1.3 dm – body length of a Goliath birdeater; 15 cm = 1.5 dm – approximate size of largest beetle species; 19 cm = 1.9 dm – length of a banana; 26.3 cm = 2.6 dm – length of average male human foot; 29.98 cm = 2.998 dm – distance light in vacuum travels in one nanosecond; 30 cm = 3.0 dm – maximum leg length of a Goliath birdeater

  4. Decimetre - Wikipedia

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    3.9370 in Look up decimeter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The decimetre (or decimeter in American English ; symbol: dm ), is a unit of length in the International System of Units , equal to one tenth of a metre , ten centimetres , one hundred millimetres , and 3.937 inches.

  5. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 ⁄ 4: 3.174 dm 3: 0.698 imp gal 0.721 U.S. dry gal 1 ⁄ 4 of a boisseau. boisseau: 1 12.7 dm 3: 2.8 imp gal 2.9 U.S. dry gal Although etymologically related to the English unit bushel, the French bushel is about one third the size. A boisseau was defined as 10 ⁄ 27 of a cubic pied du roi. minot: 3 38.09 dm 3: 8.38 imp gal 8.65 U.S. dry ...

  6. Graduation (scale) - Wikipedia

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    A ruler with two linear scales: the metric and imperial.It includes shorter minor graduations and longer major graduations. A graduation is a marking used to indicate points on a visual scale, which can be present on a container, a measuring device, or the axes of a line plot, usually one of many along a line or curve, each in the form of short line segments perpendicular to the line or curve.

  7. Vietnamese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Originally, many thước of varying lengths were in use in Vietnam, each used for different purposes. According to Hoàng Phê (1988), [1] the traditional system of units had at least two thước of different lengths before 1890, [2] the thước ta (lit. "our ruler") or thước mộc ("wooden ruler"), equal to 0.425 metres (1 ft 4.7 in), and the thước đo vải ("ruler for measuring ...

  8. Measuring rod - Wikipedia

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    Excavations at Lothal dating to 2400 BCE have yielded one such ruler calibrated to about 1 ⁄ 16 inch (1.6 mm) [3] Ian Whitelaw (2007) holds that 'The Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 1.32 inches (34 mm) and these are marked out in decimal subdivisions with remarkable accuracy—to within 0.005 inches (0.13 mm).

  9. South African units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A measure roughly equivalent to a British hogshead. 1 legger (leaguer) = 388 kannen = 16 anker = 4 ahm [152 Dutch gallons, 575.67 (≈576) liters, 126. 63 (≈127) Imp. gals.] A legger (anglicised as "leaguer") was a Dutch term for a large barrel of wine, roughly equivalent to a British butt [477.3 (≈477) liters, 105 Imperial gallons].