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  2. French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    During the early part of the twentieth century, the French introduced their own units of power – the poncelet, which was defined as being the power required to raise a mass of 100 kg against standard gravity with a velocity of 1 m/s, giving a value of 980.665 W. [16] [17] However, many other European countries defined their units of power ...

  3. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The French square foot: toise carrée: 36 ~3.799 m 2 ~40.889 sq ft, or ~4.543 sq yd The French square fathom Paris: perche d'arpent carrée: 484 ~51.07 m 2 ~61.08 sq yd This was the main square perch in old French surveying. It is a square 22 pieds du roi on each side. vergée: 12 100 ~1277 m 2 ~1527 sq yd

  4. Toise - Wikipedia

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    1 toise was divided in 6 feet (French: pieds) or 72 inches (pouces) or 864 lines (lignes) in France until 1812.; In 1799 the metre was defined to be exactly 443.296 lignes or 13,853 ⁄ 27,000 toise, with the intention that the metre should equal 1 ⁄ 10,000,000 of the distance from the pole to the equator.

  5. French catheter scale - Wikipedia

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    An increasing French size corresponds to a larger external diameter. This is contrary to Birmingham gauge, where an increasing gauge corresponds to a smaller diameter needle. The French size is a measure of the outer diameter of a catheter (not internal drainage channel, or inner diameter). So, for example, if a two-way catheter of 20 Fr is ...

  6. Book size - Wikipedia

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    An octavo page, oriented a quarter turn from the full sheet, would have height 240 mm (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)— 1 ⁄ 2 in × 19 —and width 160 mm (6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in)— 1 ⁄ 4 in × 25. The sizes of books of the same format will differ in proportion to the full sheets used to print them.

  7. Beauvais Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    Starting in September 2022 the French government will begin a restoration of the cathedral starting with the roof and removal of the interior supports. [15] Part of the roof was analyzed and restored in a project starting in 2010. [16] The analysis done on the roof included a "multidisciplinary study" of the lead tiles which made up the roof. [17]

  8. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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    Italian (IT), French (FR) and German (DE) standard dress sizes, s, are calculated by bust circumference, b, and body height, h, both measured in centimetres, as follows: IT: s = ⁠ b / 2 ⁠ FR: s = ⁠ b / 2 ⁠ − 4 = ⁠ b − 8 / 2 ⁠

  9. Length - Wikipedia

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    Various terms for the length of a fixed object are used, and these include height, which is vertical length or vertical extent, width, breadth, and depth. Height is used when there is a base from which vertical measurements can be taken. Width and breadth usually refer to a shorter dimension than length. Depth is used for the measure of a third ...