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  2. Philippine units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A number of units of measurement were used in the Philippines to measure various quantities including mass, area, and capacity. The metric system has been compulsory in the country since 1860, during the late Spanish colonial period. [1] A mixture of Spanish units and indigenous units were used alongside American units in the 1900s.

  3. Focal length - Wikipedia

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    The focal point F and focal length f of a positive (convex) lens, a negative (concave) lens, a concave mirror, and a convex mirror.. The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power.

  4. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The SI units are defined by declaring that seven defining constants [1]: 125–129 have certain exact numerical values when expressed in terms of their SI units. The realisation of the definition of a unit is the procedure by which the definition may be used to establish the value and associated uncertainty of a quantity of the same kind as the ...

  5. SI base unit - Wikipedia

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    The SI system after 1983, but before the 2019 revision: Dependence of base unit definitions on other base units (for example, the metre is defined as the distance travelled by light in a specific fraction of a second), with the constants of nature and artefacts used to define them (such as the mass of the IPK for the kilogram).

  6. Optical power - Wikipedia

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    It is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length of the device: P = 1/f. [1] High optical power corresponds to short focal length. The SI unit for optical power is the inverse metre (m −1), which, in this case, is commonly called the dioptre (symbol: dpt or D). Converging lenses have positive optical power, while diverging lenses have ...

  7. Dioptre - Wikipedia

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    A dioptre (British spelling) or diopter (American spelling), symbol dpt or D, is a unit of measurement with dimension of reciprocal length, equivalent to one reciprocal metre, 1 dpt = 1 m −1. It is normally used to express the optical power of a lens or curved mirror , which is a physical quantity equal to the reciprocal of the focal length ...

  8. History of photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    A supplementary lens is an accessory lens clipped, screwed or bayoneted to the front of a main lens that alters the lens' effective focal length. If it is a positive (converging) only supplement, it will shorten the focal length and reset the infinity focus of the lens to the focal length of the supplementary lens.

  9. Magnification - Wikipedia

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    where is the focal length, is the distance from the lens to the object, and = as the distance of the object with respect to the front focal point. A sign convention is used such that d 0 {\textstyle d_{0}} and d i {\displaystyle d_{i}} (the image distance from the lens) are positive for real object and image, respectively, and negative for ...