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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Units of measurement | | | |  Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - Japanese units of measurement - LengthThe basis of the shakkanhō length measurements is the shaku, which originated in ancient China. The other units are all fixed fractions or multiples of this basic unit. The shaku was originally the length from the thumb to the middle finger (about 18 cm, or 7 inches), but its length, and hence the length of the other units, gradually increased, since the length of the unit was related to the level of taxation.
Various different shaku developed for various purposes. The unit now most widely recognized as a ...
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| | | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area A number of conflicting systems were used for area, sometimes bearing the same names in different regions, but working on different conversion rates. Because some of the systems were based on what land would produce, rather than the physical area, they are listed in their own section. Please see individual articles for more specific information.
Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area by size.
Square inch
Square ell
Squa ...
See also:Obsolete Scottish units of measurement, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Length, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area by size, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area by production, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Volume, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Dry volume, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Fluid, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Weight Read more here: » Obsolete Scottish units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - Systems of measurement - The metric system Metric systems of units have evolved since the adoption of the first well-defined system in France in 1791. During this evolution the use of these systems spread throughout the world, first to the non-English-speaking countries, and more recently to the English speaking countries.
Multiples and submultiples of metric units are related by powers of ten; the names for these are formed with prefixes. This relationship is compatible with the decimal system of numbers an ...
See also:Systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - The metric system, Systems of measurement - Imperial and US customary units, Systems of measurement - Natural units, Systems of measurement - Atomic units, Systems of measurement - Non-standard units, Systems of measurement - Units of currency, Systems of measurement - Historical systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient Mediterranean systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient South Asian systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient East Asian systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Islamic measurements, Systems of measurement - Mediæval European measurements, Systems of measurement - Other historical systems of measurement Read more here: » Systems of measurement: Encyclopedia II - Systems of measurement - The metric system |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec A nonstandard unit of length is the attoparsec. It comes in disguise and even has a proper abbreviation, "apc". It is, however, rarely used in the real world.
Parsecs are used in astronomy to measure enormous interstellar distances; a parsec is approximately 3.26 light-years or 3.085×1016m. Combining it with the "atto" prefix yields attoparsec, a conveniently human-scaled unit of 3.085 centimeters (about 1-7/32 inches) that has no obvious practical use.
Interestingly, 1 attoparsec/microfortnight is nearly 1 inch/second (the actual figure is 1.0043 inch per second or approximately 2. ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec |
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| | | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Unit of fame or hype, derived from Andy Warhol's dictum "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes" - it represents, naturally, fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are:
1 kilowarhol - famous for 15000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric nine day's wonder.
1 megawarhol - famous for 15 million minutes, or 28.5 years. The type of person your parents talk about all the time, but of whom you've never heard from ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Warhol |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche A German counterpart is the Seemeile pro Woche, German for a nautical mile per week. 1 Sm/Woche equals about 3 mm/s, said to be the nominal value for a snail's pace.
(This is reasonable for the European garden snail, Helix aspersa, whose speed is dependent on the surface and ranges from 1.05 mm/s on a paper towel to 2.8 mm/s on Formica. As of 2004 the record speed in the World Snail Racing Championships in Congham, U.K., set in 1995, is 13 inches in 2 minutes = 5.5 mm/s; the Costa ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids In the U.S., new units are sometimes formed by a combination of traditional units, still widely used, and metric units. Thus, grams per ounce is a common measure used in sports nutrition, for example to measure the density of carbohydrate in a beverage.
A hybrid standard quantity used in mining is the assay ton, which is as many milligrams as there are Troy ounces in an avoirdupois ton. So to find how many ounces of gold are in a ton of ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC A computer programming expression, pronounced kay-lok, standing for "Kilo-Lines of Code", i.e. "Thousand Lines of Code". Used, especially by IBM managers, to express the amount of work required to develop a piece of software. Given that estimates of 20 lines of functional bug-free code per day per programmer were often used, it is apparent that 1 KLOC could take one programmer as long as 50 working days, or 10 working weeks.
This n ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Helen The amount of beauty that can launch one thousand ships. Usually used as the millihelen, the amount of beauty that can launch one ship.
Named after Helen of Troy, from the Iliad. Inspired by Marlowe's line from the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships...?".
Negative values have also been observed - these, of course, are measured by the number of ships sunk.
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See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Helen |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Gillette A unit described by Theodore Maiman as an early measure of Laser output power. The measure was simply the number of razor blades through which the laser could burn a hole. This measurement was especially convenient as the first Lasers were pulsed Ruby Lasers, making it otherwise difficult to measure the output power. Also, due to the relative uniformity of razor blades manufactured by The Gillette Company, it had some usefulness as a rough comparison.
Thus, scientists would brag about having a "4 Gillette" laser versus their competitor's puny "2 Gillette" laser. (For the record, ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Gillette |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle In Finland, the standard yardstick for large amounts of alcohol is the Koskenkorva bottle, 0.5 liters at 38%, which works out to be 0.19 liters of pure alcohol. Incidentally, the average yearly consumption of alcohol in Finland, which is about 10 liters per capita, is also 52 Koskenkorva bottles or exactly one Koskenkorva bottle per week.
For example, in an official release of the Finnish Customs: The amount of confiscated a ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Metric There are also some obscure units used within the metric system(s). The issue is basically, that with arbitrary units and prefixes you can express a common unit with an unfamiliar term.
For instance, the French at first preferred the are, which is 100 m², as base unit for areas; the square metre (m²) becomes a centiare (ca). Only the base unit and hectare (ha) saw a wider use and are still in use in some countries.
Some also used the stere (st) equalling a cubic metre (m³), so the litre (l), which is a ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Metric |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater A notional unit of comfortable seating size; it can be used to describe both the width of a seat, or the width of a seat which a person needs to be comfortable in. Named for writer and book reviewer Daniel Pinkwater, and was coined by 'Click and Clack', the hosts of the Car Talk radio show.
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See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury Another derived time unit, reducing a rather large time span (century) by preceding it with a fractional prefix (nano). As Tom Duff at Bell Labs pointed out: "How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 × 107, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, π seconds is a nanocentury."[5]
One computer science professor used to characterize the standard lengt ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead Both of these measures are antiquated units of measure, rods for distance, hogshead for volume (of alcohol). A Hogshead is different for wine and for beer. See Made-up words in the Simpsons
Rods to the hogshead would appear to correlate to miles per gallon (conversion factor: MPG x 20160 = rods to the hogshead).
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See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Gillette A unit described by Theodore Maiman as an early measure of Laser output power. The measure was simply the number of razor blades through which the laser could burn a hole. This measurement was especially convenient as the first Lasers were pulsed Ruby Lasers, making it otherwise difficult to measure the output power. Also, due to the relative uniformity of razor blades manufactured by The Gillette Company, it had some usefulness as a rough comparison.
Thus, scientists would brag about having a "4 Gillette" laser versus their competitor's puny "2 Gillette" laser. (For the record, ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Gillette |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids In the U.S., new units are sometimes formed by a combination of traditional units, still widely used, and metric units. Thus, grams per ounce is a common measure used in sports nutrition, for example to measure the density of carbohydrate in a beverage.
A hybrid standard quantity used in mining is the assay ton, which is as many milligrams as there are Troy ounces in an avoirdupois ton. So to find how many ounces of gold are in a ton of ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche A German counterpart is the Seemeile pro Woche, German for a nautical mile per week. 1 Sm/Woche equals about 3 mm/s, said to be the nominal value for a snail's pace.
(This is reasonable for the European garden snail, Helix aspersa, whose speed is dependent on the surface and ranges from 1.05 mm/s on a paper towel to 2.8 mm/s on Formica. As of 2004 the record speed in the World Snail Racing Championships in Congham, U.K., set in 1995, is 13 inches in 2 minutes = 5.5 mm/s; the Costa ...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche |
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| | | | | Units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead Both of these measures are antiquated units of measure, rods for distance, hogshead for volume (of alcohol). A Hogshead is different for wine and for beer. See Made-up words in the Simpsons
Rods to the hogshead would appear to correlate to miles per gallon (conversion factor: MPG x 20160 = rods to the hogshead).
...
See also:List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol Read more here: » List of strange units of measurement: Encyclopedia II - List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead |
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