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2. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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   A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈθaʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" (mille in Latin).

3. Inch - Wikipedia

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   Subdivisions of an inch are typically written using dyadic fractions with odd number numerators; for example, two and three-eighths of an inch would be written as ⁠2 + 3 / 8 ⁠ ″ and not as 2.375″ nor as ⁠2 + 6 / 16 ⁠ ″. However, for engineering purposes fractions are commonly given to three or four places of decimals and have been ...

4. File:Mm to 1 inch fraction ruler.svg - Wikipedia

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   Description Mm to 1 inch fraction ruler.svg. English: a ruler from 0 to 1 inch (in.) in 1/32 inch divisions below the line and 1/2 millimetre (mm) divisions above the line to give a visual representation of the approximations. Principally designed to help visually determine if a metric or imperial drill bit will suffice. Date.

5. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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   1 / 12 ⁠ picas. 1 / 72 ⁠ in. In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point has been between 0.18 and 0.4 millimeters.

6. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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   Length. For measuring length, the U.S. customary system uses the inch, foot, yard, and mile, which are the only four customary length measurements in everyday use. From 1893, the foot was legally defined as exactly 1200⁄3937 m (approximately 0.304 8006 m). [13] Since July 1, 1959, the units of length have been defined on the basis of 1 yd = 0 ...

7. File:Measuring - Fractions of an inch.svg - Wikipedia

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   File:Measuring - Fractions of an inch.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 638 × 425 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 213 pixels | 640 × 426 pixels | 1,024 × 682 pixels | 1,280 × 853 pixels | 2,560 × 1,705 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 638 × 425 pixels, file size: 17 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.