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  2. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    30.48 cm. 304.8 mm. The foot ( pl. feet; standard symbol: ft) [1] [2] is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. [3] In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet.

  3. Centimetre - Wikipedia

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    A centimetre (International spelling) or centimeter ( American spelling ), with SI symbol cm, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of 1 100. [1] Equivalently, there are 100 centimetres in 1 metre. The centimetre was the base unit of length in the ...

  4. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Human height. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.

  5. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A square 5 perches on each side, or one quarter of an acre . acre, or. arpent carré. 48 400. ~5107 m 2. ~6108 sq yd, or. ~1.262 acres. The French acre is a square 10 perches (one arpent) on each side. (Does not exactly correspond to the English acre, which is defined as 43 560 square feet.)

  6. Ancient Roman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural: pedes) or Roman foot. Investigation of its relation to the English foot goes back at least to 1647, when John Greaves published his Discourse on the Romane foot. Greaves visited Rome in 1639, and measured, among other things, the foot measure on the tomb of Titus Statilius Aper ...

  7. 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, kanejaku).

  8. Template:Height - Wikipedia

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    Instructions. The template is intended for conversion of heights specified in either feet and inches, or metric units (centimetres or metres). Metric units are converted to feet and inches, and feet and inches are converted to metres, or optionally to centimetres. As this template is intended for use in infoboxes, the units on both sides of the ...

  9. Square foot - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and ...