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  2. Heckler & Koch UMP - Wikipedia

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    The UMP first entered production in 2000. [2] It was designed primarily for use by American military and law enforcement units, [7] as the MP5 was not available in .45 ACP, a round which was popular in the United States, but not in Europe. [8] Despite the UMP's improvements and reduced cost, it did not replace the MP5, which ended up outselling ...

  3. United States Metric Board - Wikipedia

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    The United States Metric Board (USMB) was a United States government agency set up to encourage metrication.The United States Metric Board was commissioned by the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (15 U.S.C. 205d, enacted on December 23, 1975).

  4. Template:Convert/list of units - Wikipedia

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    The table below lists units supported by {{convert}}. More complete lists are linked for each dimension. For a complete list of all dimensions, see full list of units. {{Convert}} uses unit-codes, which are similar to, but not necessarily exactly the same as, the usual written abbreviation for a given unit. These unit-codes are displayed in ...

  5. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly contended that customary area units are defined in terms of the square survey foot, not the square international foot, [17] but from 2023 it states that "although historically defined using the U.S. survey foot, the statute mile can be defined using either definition of the foot, as is ...

  6. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    Cincinnati Customs House c. 1850–60 Governments were one of the earliest users of weights and measures – often for the purpose of tax collection. In the United States the US Treasury rather than Congress took the lead in establishing a standard system of weights and measures.

  7. United States Standard thread - Wikipedia

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    The thread form is defined by flats at the tip and root of the thread form. This flat length is defined as the pitch divided by eight. The thread depth, which is from flat to flat is 0.6495 times the pitch. [4]

  8. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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    The table of imperial avoirdupois mass is the same as the United States table up to one pound, but above that point, the tables differ. The imperial system has a hundredweight, defined as eight stone of 14 lb each, or 112 lb ( 50.802 345 44 kg ), whereas a US hundredweight is 100 lb ( 45.359 237 kg ).

  9. Undecaprenyl-phosphate galactose phosphotransferase - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are UDP-galactose and undecaprenyl phosphate, whereas its two products are UMP and alpha-D-galactosyl-diphosphoundecaprenol. This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases , specifically those transferring non-standard substituted phosphate groups.