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  2. Cun (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A cun (Chinese: 寸 ts'wun; Pinyin cùn IPA |mi=), often glossed as the Chinese inch, is a traditional Chinese unit of length.Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, whereas the width of the two forefingers denotes 1.5 cun and the width of four fingers (except the thumb) side-by-side is 3 cuns. [1]

  3. Scale ruler - Wikipedia

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    It is not to be confused with a true unitless ratio. A 1:5 architectural scale (inches to feet) would be a 1:60 unitless scale (inches to inches) since there are 60 inches in 5 feet. Typical scales used in the United States are: [1] full scale, with inches, divided into sixteenths of an inch

  4. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1.63 m – (5 feet 4 inches) (or 64 inches) – height of average U.S. female human as of 2002 (source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) 1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) – height of average U.S. male human as of 2002 (source: U.S. CDC as per female above) 2.4 m – wingspan of a mute swan

  5. French catheter scale - Wikipedia

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    [1] The French scale measures and is proportional to the outer diameter of a catheter, with 1 French (Fr) defined as 1 ⁄ 3 millimeter, making the relationship: 1 mm = 3 Fr. Thus, the outer diameter of a catheter in millimeters can be calculated by dividing the French size by 3. [ 2 ]

  6. Chinese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    110 000: 50 mg 0.001 764 oz: cash: fēn: 市分: 1 ⁄ 1000: 500 mg 0.017 64 oz: candareen: qián: 市錢: 1 ⁄ 100: 5 g 0.1764 oz mace or Chinese dram: liǎng: 市兩: 110: 50 g 1.764 oz tael or Chinese ounce: jīn: 市斤: 1 500 g 1.102 lb catty or Chinese pound formerly 16 liang = 1 jin dàn: 市擔: 100 50 kg 110.2 lb picul or ...

  7. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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    (10) Pearl (5 pt, ≈1.764 mm) and (11) Diamond (4.5 pt, 1.5875 mm). Fonts originally consisted of a set of moveable type letterpunches purchased from a type foundry. As early as 1600, the sizes of these types—their "bodies" [1] —acquired traditional names in English, French, German, and Dutch, usually from their principal early uses. [2]

  8. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    This smaller form factor is similar to that used in an HDD by Rodime in 1983, which was the same size as the "half height" 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm) FDD, i.e., 1.63 inches (41 mm) high. Today, the 1-inch high ("one-third height", "slimline", or "low-profile") version of this form factor is the most popular form used in most desktops.

  9. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    One barn is equal to 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2. The name derives from the folk expressions "As big as a barn," and "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn", used by particle accelerator physicists to refer to the probability of achieving a collision between particles. For nuclear purposes, 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2 is actually rather large. [25]