enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Square foot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_foot

    Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Hong Kong.

  3. Ready-mix concrete - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready-mix_concrete

    They are used to provide ready mix concrete utilizing a continuous batching process or metered concrete system. The volumetric mobile mixer is a truck that holds sand, rock, cement, water, fiber, and some add mixtures and color depending on how the batch plant is outfitted. These trucks mix or batch the ready mix on the job site.

  4. Five Square Meters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Square_Meters

    Five Square Meters (Spanish: 5 metros cuadrados) is a 2011 Spanish drama film directed by Max Lemcke from a screenplay by Daniel Remón and Pablo Remón which stars Fernando Tejero and Malena Alterio.

  5. Foot-candle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-candle

    In the US lighting industry, foot-candles are a common unit of measurement used by architects to calculate adequate lighting levels. Foot-candles are also commonly used in the museum and gallery fields in the US, where lighting levels must be carefully controlled to conserve light-sensitive objects such as prints, photographs, and paintings, the colors of which fade when exposed to bright ...

  6. Metrication in Guatemala - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Guatemala

    Among the Guatemalan units of measurement some are based on old Spanish units; they include the vara and cuadra linear measurements; the vara cuadrada, the manzana and the cuerda units of area; and the libra, arroba, quintal and garrafón units of weight and volume.

  7. Cuerda - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuerda

    In Guatemala, a cuerda is a traditional unit of distance, equal to exactly 25 varas [1] or almost 21 meters (nearly 69 feet).. During 19th-century Spain, a cuerda was a unit of length, of nearly 6.889 m (approx. 7.554 yd). [2]

  8. Mixing (mathematics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing_(mathematics)

    If a set eventually visits all of over a long period of time (that is, if = approaches all of for large ), the system is said to be ergodic. If every set A {\displaystyle A} behaves in this way, the system is a conservative system , placed in contrast to a dissipative system , where some subsets A {\displaystyle A} wander away , never to be ...

  9. List of metric units - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metric_units

    Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald, [1] metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in late 18th century France and was rapidly adopted by scientists and engineers.