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His childhood nickname was "Headster", which McDonough says originated in his brothers' teasing him about the size of his head. [4] He graduated from Barnstable High School , and attended Syracuse University , where he was initiated and became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988.
A Robertson screw, also known as a square screw [1] or Scrulox, [2] is a type of screw with a square-shaped socket in the screw head and a corresponding square protrusion on the tool. Both the tool and socket have a slight taper .
The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [10] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [11] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)
It was usually used to measure depth, tunnel driving and the size of mining fields; it was also used for contract work. In mining in the German-speaking countries, it was the primary unit of length. Ligne – a French unit of length, roughly equal to 2.25 mm (0.089 in), or 9 points; Line; Macedonian cubit; Pace; Palm; Parasang; Pes
The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but applicable to extremely short distances such as those in integrated circuits. It is the length an average beard grows in one second. Kemp Bennett Kolb defines the distance as exactly 100 angstroms (10 nanometres), [8] as does Nordling and Österman's Physics Handbook. [9]
2.100 Mm – length of proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipe; 2.100 Mm – distance from Casablanca to Rome; 2.288 Mm – length of the official Alaska Highway when it was built in the 1940s [161] 3.069 Mm – length of Interstate 95 (from Houlton, Maine, to Miami, Florida) 3.846 Mm – length of U.S. Route 1 (from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West ...
k may be taken to have units of length −2, in which case r has units of length and a(t) is unitless. k is then the Gaussian curvature of the space at the time when a ( t ) = 1 . r is sometimes called the reduced circumference because it is equal to the measured circumference of a circle (at that value of r ), centered at the origin, divided ...
Parasang - the distance an infantryman could march in a predefined period of time; Pygmē - distance from elbow to base of fingers; Sazhen - Russian fathom; Shaftment - width of the fist and outstretched thumb; Span - width of a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger; Spithamē - Ancient Greek span; Zeret ...