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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
1.0 long cwt (110 lb; 51 kg) short hundredweight: short cwt short cwt 1.0 short cwt (100 lb; 45 kg) long quarter: long qtr long qtr 1.0 long qtr (28 lb; 13 kg) short quarter: short qtr short qtr 1.0 short qtr (25 lb; 11 kg) stone: st st 14 lb used mostly in the British Commonwealth except Canada 1.0 st (14 lb; 6.4 kg) st kg. st kg lb; st lb
Generally, Atlas stones heavier than 227 kg (500 lb) are called Manhood stones Manhood Stone (Max Atlas Stone) for reps – 228 kg (503 lb) x 2 reps over 4 ft (48 in) bar [ 192 ] Atlas Stone one-motion to platform – 205 kg (452 lb) to 4 ft 4 in (52 in) [has achieved this feat twice] , [ 193 ] and 200 kg (441 lb) to 4 ft 8 in (56 in) [ 194 ...
Mercantile stone 12 lb L ≈ 5.6 kg Butcher's stone 8 lb ≈ 3.63 kg Sack 26 st = 364 lb ≈ 165 kg The carat was once specified as four grains in the English-speaking world. Some local units in the English dominion were (re-)defined in simple terms of English units, such as the Indian tola of 180 grains. Tod This was an English weight for wool ...
7–8 × 10 36 kg The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, associated with the radio source Sagittarius A* (3.7±0.2 × 10 6 M ☉) [165] 8 × 10 36 kg Omega centauri, the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way, containing approximately 10 million stars. 10 37 10 38 10 39 10 40 10 41: 1.98 × 10 41 kg
The plural stone is often used when providing a weight (e.g. "this sack weighs 8 stone"). [34] A person's weight is usually quoted in stone and pounds in English-speaking countries that use the avoirdupois system, with the exception of the United States and Canada, where it is usually quoted in pounds. quarter (qr or qtr) 28 12.700 586 36 kg
4 Old weight units. ... stenkast – "stone's throw", about 50 m (164 ft), used to this day as an approximate measure. ... 0.42507 kg 0.937 lb mark:
Weight: 110 kg (17 st 5 lb) [1] School: Collingwood: Rugby union career; Position(s) Prop: ... Frazier, who stands 6' 3" tall and weighs in at over 18 stone, has been ...