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Inches are used for display screens (e.g. televisions and computer monitors) worldwide. It is the official Japanese standard for electronic parts, especially display screens, and is the industry standard throughout continental Europe for display screens ( Germany being one of few countries to supplement it with centimetres in most stores [ 12 ] ).
The size of a screen is usually described by the length of its diagonal, which is the distance between opposite corners, typically measured in inches. It is also sometimes called the physical image size to distinguish it from the "logical image size," which describes a screen's display resolution and is measured in pixels .
A mid-tower computer case from c. 2011. In personal computing, a tower unit, or simply a tower, is a form factor of desktop computer case whose height is much greater than its width, thus having the appearance of an upstanding tower block, as opposed to a traditional "pizza box" computer case whose width is greater than its height and appears lying flat.
Rack mount computer monitors are available in two styles and are intended to be mounted into a 19-inch rack: A fixed 19-inch (48 cm), 4:3 rack mount LCD monitor Fixed. A fixed rack mount monitor is mounted directly to the rack with the flat-panel or CRT visible at all times.
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The size of a slate varies, but slates begin at 6 inches (approximately 15 cm). [84] Some models in the larger than 10-inch (25 cm) category include the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 at 12.2 inches (31 cm), the Toshiba Excite at 13.3 inches (33 cm) [ 85 ] and the Dell XPS 18 at 18.4 inches (47 cm). [ 86 ]
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