• A number of different units of measurement were used in Brazil to measure quantities including length, area, volume, and mass as those units were derived...
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  • A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating...
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  • fraction of a base unit. Many of the unusual units of measurements listed here are colloquial measurements, units devised to compare a measurement to common...
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    Europe and Islam. These influences are obvious in the names of the units. The measurement units themselves were, in many cases, inherited from a distant...
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  • for various definitions of the league. List of obsolete units of measurement Portuguese customary units Spanish customary units Seven-league boots Walking...
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    comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time), metre (m, length)...
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    symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled...
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    process of converting to the metric system of measurement. All over the world, countries have transitioned from local and traditional units of measurement to...
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    Government Brazilian Federal Government Official Tourist Guide of Brazil Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Wikimedia Atlas of Brazil Geographic...
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    Gradian (redirect from Centigon (unit))
    then). The gradian is not part of the International System of Units (SI). The EU directive on the units of measurement: 9–10  notes that the gradian "does...
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  • capacity, such as the salt measurement system in Aveiro, where the moio was of only 13.1 liters. Under the reign of Pedro I of Portugal, due to a new increase...
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  • definition of quintal Act of July 28, 1866, codified in 15 U.S.C. §205 "Metric System of Measurement: Interpretation of the International System of Units for...
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    Mile (redirect from Mile (unit))
    miles, furlongs, and yards (see page 18 of the fact book). "Appendix E. General Tables of Units of Measurement". Retrieved 14 January 2020. (links to a...
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  • Au (redirect from AU (unit))
    planetary systems astronomy Arbitrary unit, a placeholder unit for when the actual value of a measurement is unknown or unimportant AU (band), an experimental...
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  • Cordel, a unit of length, see Obsolete Spanish and Portuguese units of measurement Cordel literature, popular and inexpensively Brazilian printed booklets...
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    According to a survey carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 90% of Brazilian municipalities have environmental problems...
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  • is twelve log. A list of conversions follows: 1 hin = 12 logs 1 log = 6 Beitzah (egg) Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement Judaism portal "Menachot...
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  • Tonelada (category Obsolete units of measurement)
    However, as with the ton, the specific size of the units varied with time and location. The Spanish tonelada of volume was reckoned as 2 butts or pipes (botas...
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    to measurement units and methods and instruments, as well as its application to material products; To keep the standards of the units of measurement, as...
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    Newton-second (category Units of measurement)
    N⋅s or N s) is the unit of impulse in the International System of Units (SI). It is dimensionally equivalent to the momentum unit kilogram-metre per second...
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    Toise (category Obsolete units of measurement)
    Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution Portuguese customary units Ottoman units of measurement Fathom and klafter, similar units...
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    (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity to the...
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    Klafter (category Units of measurement of the Holy Roman Empire)
    cubic line = 10.56 cubic millimetres The Rahmklafter, as the unit of timber measurement was called in Austria, was defined for long and short firewood...
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  • Indefinite and fictitious numbers (category CS1 Brazilian Portuguese-language sources (pt-br))
    Ball Z List of unusual units of measurement – Units of measurement that are not part of a coherent system List of humorous units of measurement – Unconventional...
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  • Overall equipment effectiveness (category CS1 Brazilian Portuguese-language sources (pt-br))
    is 40 Units/Hour or 1.5 Minutes/Unit The Work Center produces 242 Total Units during the shift. Note: The basis is Total Units, not Good Units. The Performance...
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  • Arroba (redirect from @ (unit))
    symbol used in Internet email addresses. Portuguese customary units Spanish customary units "arroba". Diccionario de la lengua española. Real Academia Española...
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  • EM (redirect from Em (unit))
    third-person singular oblique Spivak pronoun em (typography), a unit of measurement em dash, a dash that is one em wide em space or mutton, a space that...
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  • a unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages pt, a measurement in the print industry for thickness of card stock Pint (Pt.), a unit of volume...
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  • [kɐˈnaðɐ]) was the unit of liquid volume of the ancient Portuguese measurement system. It was used in Portugal, Brazil and other parts of the Portuguese Empire...
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    Astros II (category Multiple rocket launchers of Brazil)
    explosive (HE) with multiple warhead  Brazil Brazilian Army: 38 Astros II Mk3, 18 Astros II Mk3M and 22 Astros II Mk6 Brazilian Marine Corps: 6 Astros II Mk6...
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