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

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...

Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an object or event, which can be used to compare with other objects or events. In other words, measurement...

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

Jean Picard also measured the length of a seconds pendulum at Paris Observatory and proposed this unit of measurement to be called the astronomical radius...

Linea in its summary of units of measurements, defining it as "Linea una Mensurae parisinae"; Stearns gives its length as 2.25 mm. Even after metrication...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

ts'wun), 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...

Anthropic units Hand (unit) List of human-based units of measurement List of unusual units of measurement Units of measure Arthur Cornwallis Madan (1903). Swahili-English...

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...

measurement process; for example lengths measured with a ruler calibrated in whole centimeters will have a measurement error of several millimeters. The...

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...

other traditional measurements, the pace started as an informal unit of length, but was later standardized, often with the specific length set according to...

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...

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...

the shaku as that of the ja (자). [citation needed] Japanese units of measurement East Asian custom usually considers a span from thumb to index finger...

equal due to time dilation, resulting in different lengths too. The deviation between the measurements in all inertial frames is given by the formulas for...

Aragon, a seldom used Spanish and Portuguese unit of length. List of obsolete units of measurement Portuguese customary units Spanish customary units Gilbert...

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

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...

studies have been performed on the erect length of the adult penis. Studies that have relied on self-measurement, including those from Internet surveys...

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,...

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

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...

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...