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    United States customary units (often incorrectly referred to as imperial units) form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States...
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    and Carolingian and Saxon units of measure. The US Customary system of units was developed and used in the United States after the American Revolution...
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  • water by one degree Fahrenheit. It is also part of the United States customary units. The SI unit for energy is the joule (J); one Btu equals about 1,055 J...
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  • based on United States customary units of measure. The English Engineering Units is a system of consistent units used in the United States. The set is...
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    higher precision, the unit was commonly used throughout the English-speaking world, for example in the United States customary units and the Imperial system...
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    System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace a jurisdiction's traditional measuring units. U.S. customary units have been...
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  • of the descendant system of United States customary units. The two main sets of English units were the Winchester Units, used from 1495 to 1587, as affirmed...
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  • of cases in the United Kingdom (imperial units) and fully in the United States (United States customary units). Before the introduction of the metric system...
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    measurement Unified Code for Units of Measure United States customary units Unit of account Units of information "measurement unit". International Vocabulary...
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  • mile ) = 1.460 tkm The metric units (pkm and tkm) are used internationally. (In aviation where United States customary units are widely used, the International...
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    alcoholic spirits measures. In imperial units In United States customary units Prior to metrication, in the United Kingdom, the standard single measure of...
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    Tonne (redirect from Gigaton (unit))
    distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States customary units) and the long ton (British imperial units). It is equivalent to approximately...
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  • published using the United States customary units of pound per square inch (psi) and gallon per minute (gpm). Within the United States, US measurements are...
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  • units is one where all units are directly derived from a set of base units, without the need of any conversion factors. The United States customary units...
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  • countries. However, US customary units remain heavily used in the United States and to some degree in Liberia. Traditional Burmese units of measurement are...
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    black-powder rifles. Apothecaries' system Units of measurement in France Imperial units Troy weight United States customary units Weighing scales School science...
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    British imperial measurement system and United States customary systems of measurement derive from earlier English unit systems used prior to 1824 that were...
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    Cubic inch (category Customary units of measurement in the United States)
    The cubic inch (symbol in3) is a unit of volume in the Imperial units and United States customary units systems. It is the volume of a cube with each of...
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  • defines them slightly differently: United States customary units, used predominantly in the United States. Imperial units, used predominantly in Britain....
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    Peck (redirect from Peck (unit))
    in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or...
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    to order that Chinese units of measurement similar to those used in Hong Kong, Imperial units, and United States customary units would be permissible for...
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    are the metric units, used in every country globally. In the United States the U.S. customary units are also in use. British Imperial units are still used...
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    Furlong (redirect from Furlong (unit))
    A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and United States customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to any of 660 feet, 220...
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  • Several units of measurements are used in Puerto Rico. The units of measure in use in Puerto Rico are based on the United States customary units with two...
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  • century, the smallest unit of fluid measure in the Apothecaries' systems of the United States customary units and pre-1824 English units was, while inexact...
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  • USC (section United States)
    engineering and geology United Shipbuilding Corporation, in Russia United States customary units, a system of measurement WWE United States Championship, a wrestling...
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    Foot-candle (category Customary units of measurement in the United States)
    world where United States customary units are used, mainly the United States. Nearly all of the world uses the corresponding SI derived unit lux, defined...
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    5 inch/ 54 gun, albeit that this gun calibre is measured in United States customary units rather than metric. The gun uses an automatic loading system...
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    the United States, the option to include imperials units alongside metric units could continue indefinitely. The United Kingdom and the United States face...
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    Fathom (redirect from Fathom (unit))
    Greek units of measurement Anthropic units Bathymetry English units Hvat Imperial units International System of Units United States customary units Sounding...
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