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2. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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   A foot-long ruler. General information ... giving a person of 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) a foot-length of ... the Mendenhall Order of 1893 via 39.37 inches = 1 m (making a US ...

3. Shaku (unit) - Wikipedia

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   Another shaku variant was used for measuring cloth, which measured 125 ⁄ 330 meters (37.9 centimeters or 14.9 inches), and was known as the "whale shaku " (鯨尺, kujirajaku), as baleen (whale whiskers) were used as cloth rulers. To distinguish the two variants of shaku, the general unit was known as the "metal shaku " (金尺/曲尺 ...

4. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...

5. Scale ruler - Wikipedia

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   A scale ruler is a tool for measuring lengths and transferring measurements at a fixed ratio of length; ... (inches to feet) would be a 1:60 unitless scale (inches to ...

6. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   It was 1 ⁄ 6 of a ligne or 1 ⁄ 864 of the smaller French foot. ligne: 1 ⁄ 144: 2.256 mm 88.81 thou 1 ⁄ 12 of a pouce. This corresponds to the line, a traditional English unit. pouce: 1 ⁄ 12: 27.07 mm 1.066 in 1 ⁄ 12 of a pied du roi. This corresponds to the inch, a traditional English unit. pied du roi: 1 32.48 cm 1.066 ft

7. 1:18 scale - Wikipedia

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   1:18 scale is a traditional scale (ratio) for models and miniatures, in which 18 units (such as inches or centimeters) on the original is represented by one unit on the model. Depending on application, the scale is also called two third inch scale since 1 foot is represented by 2/3 of an inch.

8. List of scale model sizes - Wikipedia

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   Exact HO scale (half O of 7 mm = 1 foot) 1:87: 3.503 mm: Model railways (HO/h0) Civilian and military vehicles. Often used to describe HO scale. Original nominal 25 mm figure scale; though a 6-foot human in 1:87 is closer to 21 mm. 1:82: 3.717 mm An intermediate scale (HO/OO) intended to apply to both HO and OO scale train sets.

9. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   A ruler, depicting two customary units of length, the centimeter and the inch. A unit of length refers to any arbitrarily chosen and accepted reference standard for measurement of length. The most common units in modern use are the metric units, used in every country globally. In the United States the U.S. customary units are also in use.