Length measurement, distance measurement, or range measurement (ranging) all refer to the many ways in which length, distance, or range can be measured...

is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement a base unit for length is chosen, from which all other units are derived. In the...

fully erect penis, with the measurement usually taken mid-shaft. As with length, studies that relied on self-measurement consistently reported a significantly...

rod long were used as standards of length when surveying land. The rod was still in use as a common unit of measurement in the mid-19th century, when Henry...

units of measurement are derived from historical agreements. Nothing inherent in nature dictates that an inch has to be a certain length, nor that a...

times the definite predetermined length called "metre". The definition, agreement, and practical use of units of measurement have played a crucial role in...

measurement of the river length between source and mouth, that determine the precise meaning of "river length". As a result, the length measurements of...

(standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly...

is, for all practical purposes, a waterline measurement. In a ship with raked stems, naturally that length changes as the draught of the ship changes,...

coastline lengths, this is the source of the land area used to calculate the "coast/area ratio" for both TWF and WRI (see below) coastline measurement. This...

allowed the standard to be universally available by measurement. In 1983 this was updated to a length defined in terms of the speed of light; this definition...

portion of the hypural plate. This measurement excludes the length of the caudal (tail) fin. Total length (TL) is the length of a fish measured from the tip...

chih) is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Although it is often translated as the "Chinese foot", its length was originally derived from the distance...

horse length, or simply length, is a unit of measurement for the length of a horse from nose to tail, approximately 8 feet (2.4 m). The length is commonly...

The hand is a non-SI unit of measurement of length standardized to 4 in (101.6 mm). It is used to measure the height of horses in many English-speaking...

A unit of length refers to any arbitrarily chosen and accepted reference standard for measurement of length. The most common units in modern use are the...

capacity of a ship. It is a volumetric measurement of cubic capacity. It estimated the tonnage of a ship based on length and maximum beam. It is expressed...

Length contraction is the phenomenon that a moving object's length is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in...

different lengths, even though careful measurement would show equal lengths of the actual bones within the leg or legs. This is called leg length alignment...

Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although...

palm" as the length rather than the breadth of the hand. Unlike Greaves, who used the Guildhall standard foot, Hutton based his measurements on the fractured...

Measures to create standards for length measurements in 1196, and the 1215 Magna Carta included a section for the measurement of wine and beer. Modern metrology...

length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for 1000). It is the preferred measurement unit...

(symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to ⁠1/36⁠ yard or ⁠1/12⁠...

|mi=[tsʰwə̂n]), often glossed as the Chinese inch, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle...

presenting the outcome of a measurement (such as length, pressure, volume, or mass), if the number of digits exceeds what the measurement instrument can resolve...

fundamentally different from the measurement of other, simpler edges. It is possible, for example, to accurately measure the length of a straight, idealized metal...

obsolete non-SI unit of measurement of length. It was originally based on the breadth of a human finger. It was a fundamental unit of length in the Ancient Egyptian...

A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou...

antiquity, systems of measurement were defined locally: the different units might be defined independently according to the length of a king's thumb or...