A unit of measurement is a standardised quantity of a physical property, used as a factor to express occurring quantities of that property. Units of measurement were among the earliest tools invented by humans. Primitive societies needed rudimentary measures for many tasks: constructing dwellings of an appropriate size and shape, fashioning clothing, or bartering food …

English units are the units of measurement used in England up to 1826 (when they were replaced by Imperial units), which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units. Various standards have applied to English units at different times, in different places, and for different applications. Use of the term "English units" can be ambiguous, as, in …

Conversion of units is the conversion between different units of measurement for the same quantity, typically through multiplicative conversion factors which change the measured quantity value without changing its effects. Overview. The process of conversion depends on the specific situation and the intended purpose. ...

The Smoot is a unit of length, defined as the height in 1958 of Oliver R. Smoot, who later became the Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (), and then the president of the International Organization for Standardization ().The unit is used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge.Canonically, and originally, in 1958 when Smoot was a Lambda Chi Alpha …

Length. The basic unit is the Russian ell, called the arshin, which has been in use since the 16th century.It was standardized by Peter the Great in the 18th century to measure exactly twenty-eight English inches (71.12 cm). Thus, 80 vershoks = 20 piads = 5 arshins = 140 English inches (355.60 cm). A pyad (пядь, "palm", "five") or chetvert (че́тверть, "quarter") is a hand span ...

Taiwanese units of measurement (Chinese: 臺制, Taiwanese Hokkien: Tâi-chè, Hakka: Thòi-chṳ, Mandarin: Táizhì) are the customary and traditional units of measure used in Taiwan.The Taiwanese units formed in the 1900s when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.The system mainly refers to Japanese system.The measurement refers to the traditional size of a Japanese …

This is a list of units of measurement based on human body parts or the attributes and abilities of humans (anthropometric units). It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based. These units are thus considered to be human scale and anthropocentric Area. Quinaria - the cross-sectional ...

Length. Some Greek measures of length were named after parts of the body, such as the δάκτυλος (daktylos, plural: δάκτυλοι daktyloi) or finger (having the size of a thumb), and the πούς (pous, plural: πόδες podes) or foot (having the size of a shoe).The values of the units varied according to location and epoch (e.g., in Aegina a pous was approximately 333 mm (13.1 in ...

France has a unique history of units of measurement due to its radical decision to invent and adopt the metric system after the French Revolution.. In the Ancien régime and until 1795, France used a system of measures that had many of the characteristics of the modern Imperial System of units but with no unified system. There was widespread abuse of the king's standards, to the …

The ancient Egyptian units of measurement are those used by the dynasties of ancient Egypt prior to its incorporation in the Roman Empire and general adoption of Roman, Greek, and Byzantine units of measurement.The units of length seem to have originally been anthropic, based on various parts of the human body, although these were standardized using cubit rods, …