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Under the 1300 Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date that was notionally in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act, "3 barly cornes dry and rounde" [2] [3] were to serve as the basis for the inch and thence the larger units of feet, yards, perches and thus of the acre, an important unit of area.
Spat – a unit of length equal to 1,000,000,000 km (620,000,000 mi) Stadion; Step; Unglie; Vara – an Aragonese, Spanish, and Portuguese unit [3] Yojana – a Vedic measure of distance used in ancient India. Its value was about 10 km (6.2 mi), although the exact value is disputed among scholars (between 8 and 13 km or 5 and 8 mi)
A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.It is equal to 1 / 36 yard or 1 / 12 of a foot.
The most commonly used units are the mile or "li" (哩, li 1), the yard or "ma" (碼, maa 5), the foot or "chek" (呎, cek 3), and the inch or "tsun" (吋, cyun 3). The traditional measure of flat area is the square foot ( 方呎, 平方呎 , fong 1 cek 3 , ping 4 fong 1 cek 3 ) of the imperial system, which is still in common use for real ...
The United States is the only industrialized country that uses the (international) foot in preference to the meter in its commercial, engineering, and standards activities. [4] The foot is legally recognized in the United Kingdom; road distance signs must use imperial units (however, distances on road signs are always marked in miles or yards ...
Starting in 2011, Google Earth enabled the ability to measure distance using smoots, with the standard length of 5 feet 7 inches. [20] The calculator function of Google Search also provides values in smoots, [ 21 ] and in 2011, smoot was one of the 10,000 new words added to the fifth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary .
The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. [1] It equals the volume of a board that is one foot (30.5 cm) in length, one foot in width, and one inch (2.54 cm) in thickness, or exactly 2.359 737 216 liters .
feet Metric US & Imperial Notes Taiwanese Hokkien Hakka Mandarin Character Exact Approx. Exact Approx. Hun: Fûn: Fēn: 分: 1 ⁄ 100 1 / 330 m: 3.030 mm 125 / 37,719 yd: 0.1193 in Same as Japanese Bu: Chhùn: Chhun: Cùn: 寸: 1 ⁄ 10 1 / 33 m: 3.030 cm 1250 / 37,719 yd: 1.193 in Taiwanese inch; Same as ...