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  2. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property ...

  3. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    List of conversion factors. This article gives a list of conversion factors for several physical quantities. A number of different units (some only of historical interest) are shown and expressed in terms of the corresponding SI unit. Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 ...

  4. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used area unit with a name unrelated to any length unit is the acre.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, but from 2023 it states that "although historically defined using the U.S. survey foot, the statute mile can be defined using either ...

  5. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    Imperial units. The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road) The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 ( 5 Geo. 4. c.

  6. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    Metric system. A kilogram mass and three metric measuring devices: a tape measure in centimetres, a thermometer in degrees Celsius, and a multimeter that measures potential in volts, current in amperes and resistance in ohms. The metric system is a decimal -based system of measurement. The current international standard for the metric system is ...

  7. Gasoline gallon equivalent - Wikipedia

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    Gasoline gallon equivalent ( GGE) or gasoline-equivalent gallon ( GEG) is the amount of an alternative fuel it takes to equal the energy content of one liquid gallon of gasoline. GGE allows consumers to compare the energy content of competing fuels against a commonly known fuel, namely gasoline. It is difficult to compare the cost of gasoline ...

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