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1.0 mm – 0.03937 inches or 5/127 (exactly) 1.0 mm – side of a square of area 1 mm²; 1.0 mm – diameter of a pinhead; 1.5 mm – average length of a flea [27] 2.54 mm – distance between pins on old dual in-line package (DIP) electronic components; 5 mm – length of an average red ant; 5 mm – diameter of an average grain of rice
SD g/mm 2 is the sectional density in grams per square millimeters; m g is the mass of the projectile in grams; d mm is the diameter of the projectile in millimeters; For example, a small arms bullet with a mass of 10.4 grams (160 gr) and having a diameter of 6.70 mm (0.264 in) has a sectional density of: 4 · 10.4 / (π·6.7 2) = 0.295 g/mm 2
Tablet cases sizes Tablet PC Height Width Depth Screen Case size Acer Iconia Tab A500 [1]: 10.2 in (260 mm) 7 in (180 mm) 0.52 in (13 mm) 10.1 in (260 mm)
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 hole punch [18] 10 −4: 1 square centimetre (cm 2) 290 mm 2: Area of one side ...
The unit is used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge. Canonically, and originally, in 1958 when Smoot was a Lambda Chi Alpha pledge at MIT (class of 1962), the bridge was measured to be 364.4 Smoots, plus or minus one ear, using Mr. Smoot himself as a ruler. [17] At the time, Smoot was 5 feet, 7 inches, or 170 cm, tall. [18]
[7] [8] This copper bar was discovered in Nippur, on the banks of the Euphrates, and is kept in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Archaeologists consider that this 51.85 centimetres long unit was the origin of the Roman foot. Indeed, the Egyptians divided the Sumerian cubit into 28 fingers and 16 of these fingers gave a Roman foot of 29.633 ...
The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.
The 155 mm (6.1 in) caliber originated in France after the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). A French artillery committee met on 2 February 1874 to discuss new models for French fortress and siege artillery, among which there was a weapon in the 14–16 cm (5.5–6.3 in) caliber range (later it became known as the De Bange 155 mm cannon ...