Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
It was originally defined as the area plowed by a team of oxen in a day [1] but was nominally standardized as the area enclosed by a square 100 Greek feet (pous) to a side. It was the size of a Greek wrestling square. The Byzantine or Morean stremma continued to vary depending on the period and the quality of the land, but usually enclosed an ...
In Bosnia and Herzegovina and also Serbia, the unit is called dulum (дулум) or dunum (дунум). In Bosnia and Herzegovina dunum (or dulum) equals 1,000 square metres (10,764 sq ft). In the region of Leskovac, south Serbia, One dulum is equal to 1,600 square metres (17,222 sq ft). In Albania it is called dynym or dylym.
Irish acre = 7,840 square yards (6,560 m 2) Cheshire acre = 10,240 square yards (8,560 m 2) [53] Stremma or Greek acre ≈ 10,000 square Greek feet, but now set at exactly 1,000 square metres (a similar unit was the zeugarion) [54] Dunam or Turkish acre ≈ 1,600 square Turkish paces, but now set at exactly 1,000 square metres (a similar unit ...
The square metre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter (American spelling) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m2. [1] It is the area of a square with sides one metre in length. Adding and subtracting SI prefixes creates multiples and ...
100 / 33 m. 3.030 m. 125,000 / 37,719 yd. 9 ft 11.3 in. Taiwanese fathom; Same as Japanese Jō. Taiwanese length units and the translation of length units in metric system (SI) shares the same character. The adjective Taiwanese (台) can be added to address the Taiwanese unis system. For example, 台尺 means Taiwanese foot and 公尺 ...
17.5 m 2 188 sq ft sextula 400 1 ⁄ 72: 35.0 m 2 377 sq ft sicilicus 600 1 ⁄ 48: 52.6 m 2 566 sq ft semiuncia 1,200 1 ⁄ 24: 105 m 2 1,130 sq ft uncia 2,400 1 ⁄ 12: 210 m 2 2,260 sq ft sextans 4,800 1 ⁄ 6: 421 m 2 4,530 sq ft quadrans 7,200 1 ⁄ 4: 631 m 2 6,790 sq ft triens 9,600 1 ⁄ 3: 841 m 2 9,050 sq ft quincunx
From 1630 to 1718 a millia was 5,564 feet (1,696 metres), making a geographical league of four millias equal 22,256 feet (6,784 m or 3.663 modern nautical miles). But from 1718 through the 1830s the millia was defined as the equivalent of just over 5,210 feet, giving a shorter geographical league of just over 20,842 feet (6,353 m or 3.430 ...
Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar ...