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  2. Stairs - Wikipedia

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    Height of the handrail. This is typically between 34 and 38 inches (864 and 965 mm), measured to the nose of the tread. The minimum height of the handrail for landings may be different and is typically 36 inches (914 mm). Handrail diameter. The size has to be comfortable for grasping and is typically between 1.25 and 2.675 inches (31.8 and 67.9 ...

  3. Dog-leg (stairs) - Wikipedia

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    A dog-leg staircase A quarter-landing, on a dog-leg staircase, is made into an architectural feature, by the use of arches, vaulting and stained glass. A dog-leg is a configuration of stairs between two floors of a building, often a domestic building, in which a flight of stairs ascends to a quarter-landing before turning at a right angle and continuing upwards. [1]

  4. Stair tread - Wikipedia

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    According to the United States Access Board, stair treads in buildings shall have uniform tread depths that are 11 inches, or 280 mm, at minimum. Treads are not permitted to have a slope steeper than 1:48. [4] All stair tread installations must comply with Regulation 302 of the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. The regulation states that the ...

  5. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    115 Mmwidth of Saturn's Rings; 120 Mmdiameter of EBLM J0555-57Ab, the smallest-known star; 120 Mmdiameter of Saturn; 142 Mmdiameter of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System; 170 Mmdiameter of TRAPPIST-1, a star discovered to have seven planets around it; 174 Mmdiameter of OGLE-TR-122b, one of the smallest ...

  6. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The first group of metric units are those that are at present defined as units within the International System of Units (SI). In its most restrictive interpretation, this is what may be meant when the term metric unit is used. The unit one (1) is the unit of a quantity of dimension one. It is the neutral element of any system of units. [2]

  7. Handrail - Wikipedia

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    Current versions of these codes and standards now agree that handrail is defined as either a circular cross section with an outside diameter of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (32 mm) minimum and 2 inches (51 mm) maximum or a non-circular cross section with a perimeter dimension of 4 inches (102 mm) minimum and 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (159 mm) maximum and a ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (area) - Wikipedia

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    Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display: 10 −7 2-400,000 μm 2: Cross-sectional area of a mechanical pencil lead (0.5-0.7 mm in diameter) [16] 10 −6: 1 square millimetre (mm 2) 1–2 mm 2: Area of a human fovea [17] 2 mm 2: Area of the head of a pin: 10 −5 30–50 mm 2: Area of a 6–8 mm hole punched in a piece of paper by a ...

  9. Square (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Speed square, or rafter square, or rafter angle square, or triangle square, or layout square A speed square is a triangular carpenters square combining functions of the combination square, try square, and framing square into one. It can be used to calculate and mark angles, to suspend a plumb bob, and as a fence for a circular saw. [21] [22] [23]