enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nepalese customary units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_customary_units...

    sq.feet sq.meter khetmuri 1: 1.877914952 37.55829904 ... 1: 20 0.665631848 10.65010957 ... The following is a partial list of everyday units used to calculate land ...

  3. Twenty-foot equivalent unit - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit

    The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. [1] It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks.

  4. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_units

    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property ...

  5. Metre - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

    The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠ 1 / 299 792 458 ⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.

  6. Height above mean sea level - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_above_mean_sea_level

    Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level varies in different countries due to different reference points and historic measurement periods.

  7. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length)

    An adult human foot is about 28 cm (11 in) long. The decimetre (SI symbol: dm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10 −1 metres (⁠ 1 / 10 ⁠ m = 0.1 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 centimetres and 100 centimetres (10 −1 metre and 1 metre).

  8. International System of Units - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

    The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. Coordinated by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (abbreviated BIPM from French: Bureau international des ...

  9. Nautical mile - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile

    A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).