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  2. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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    Before the establishment of the decimal metric system in France during the French Revolution in the late 18th century, [4] many units of length were based on parts of the human body. [5] [6] The Nippur cubit was one of the oldest known units of length. The oldest known metal standard for length corresponds to this Sumerian unit and dates from ...

  3. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. alt attribute - Wikipedia

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    The text in the alt attribute is used to replace the image when the image cannot be loaded, without changing the intended meaning of the page's contents. [8] The W3C's web content accessibility guidelines state that the alt attribute is used to convey the meaning and intent of the image, rather than being a literal description of the image ...

  5. Length measurement - Wikipedia

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    Length measurement, distance measurement, or range measurement (ranging) all refer to the many ways in which length, distance, or range can be measured. The most commonly used approaches are the rulers, followed by transit-time methods and the interferometer methods based upon the speed of light. Surveying is one ancient use of measuring long ...

  6. W3Schools - Wikipedia

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    W3Schools is a freemium educational website for learning coding online. [1] [2] Initially released in 1998, it derives its name from the World Wide Web but is not affiliated with the W3 Consortium. [3] [4] [unreliable source] W3Schools offers courses covering many aspects of web development. [5] W3Schools also publishes free HTML templates.

  7. HTML attribute - Wikipedia

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    HTML attributes are special words used inside the opening tag to control the element's behaviour. It is a piece of markup language used to adjust the behavior or display of an HTML element.HTML attributes are a modifier of a HTML element type. An attribute either modifies the default functionality of an element type or provides functionality to ...

  8. Image compression - Wikipedia

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    Image compression is a type of data compression applied to digital images, to reduce their cost for storage or transmission. Algorithms may take advantage of visual perception and the statistical properties of image data to provide superior results compared with generic data compression methods which are used for other digital data.

  9. Length - Wikipedia

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    Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities , length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement a base unit for length is chosen, from which all other units are derived.