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A variety of more local or specific cubit measures were developed over time: the "small" Hashemite cubit of 60.05 cm (23 + 21 ⁄ 32 in), also known as the cubit of Bilal (al-dhirāʿ al-Bilāliyya, named after the 8th-century Basran qāḍī Bilal ibn Abi Burda); the Egyptian carpenter's cubit (al-dhirāʿ bi'l-najjāri) or architect's cubit ...
One cubit is originally the length from someone's elbow to the tip of their middle finger; it usually translates to approximately half a metre ±10%, with an ancient Roman cubit being as long as 120 cm. One cubit was equal to 6–7 palms, one palm being the width of a hand not including the thumb.
A span is the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. In ancient times, a span was considered to be half a cubit. Sometimes the distinction is made between the great span or full span (thumb to little finger) and little span or short span (thumb to index finger, or index finger to little ...
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 ...
Number of (periodic) occurrences per unit time hertz (Hz = s −1) T −1: scalar Half-life: t 1/2: Time for a quantity to decay to half its initial value s T: Heat: Q: Thermal energy: joule (J) L 2 M T −2: Heat capacity: C p: Energy per unit temperature change J/K L 2 M T −2 Θ −1: extensive Heat flux density: ϕ Q: Heat flow per unit ...
The palm was not a major unit in ancient Mesopotamia but appeared in ancient Israel as the tefah, [7] tepah, [8] or topah [8] (Hebrew: טפח, lit. "a spread"). [9] Scholars were long uncertain as to whether this was reckoned using the Egyptian or Babylonian cubit, [7] but now believe it to have approximated the Egyptian "Greek cubit", giving a value for the palm of about 74 mm or 2.9 in. [8]
cubit: traditionally 2 Arabic feet, later 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 Arabic feet Cubit قامة: fathom: 6 Arabic feet ~1.92 m A pace-length Qaṣbah قصبة: 12 Arabic feet ~3.84 m A cane-length Seir: stade: 600 Arabic feet ~192 m Ghalwah: 720 Arabic feet ~230.4 m Parasang فرسخ: parasang or league: 18,000 Arabic feet ~5.76 km Barid بريد: 4 parasang ...
A 36 square cubit area was known as a kalamos and a 144 square cubit area as a hamma. [17] The uncommon bikos may have been 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 hammata or another name for the cubit strip. [17] The Coptic shipa (ϣⲓⲡⲁ) was a land unit of uncertain value, possibly derived from Nubia. [43]