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  Units: F
This unit is used to express turbidity measured by a nephelometer that measures directly the fraction of light transmitted through a water sample as compared to the fraction transmitted through a standard preparation of formazin.
The finger-width was a common unit of measurement in Anglo-Saxon England.
The unit is used in archery, where it measures the brace height of a bow (the distance from the center of the grip to the bowstring) and also in kayaking, where it measures various critical dimensions of the boat.
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  Faggot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A faggot in the United Kingdom is a dish of chopped meat and herbs rolled into a ball and fried.
Faggot is a pejorative slang term used to refer to a gay man.
A faggot is an archaic unit of measurement.
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The Report of the BSE Inquiry, which argued that, 'The importance of precautionary measures should not be played down on the grounds that the risk is unproven' (3).
This meant there was a qualitative change in the type of the patients referred to the CJD Unit - but the evidence didn't take this into account, it didn't say "Maybe that's why there were more cases, and talk of a new disease".
A simple but effective measurement of whether this was a food-borne infection - the more people are possibly exposed to the prion, the more infections there are.
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 Measurement
Faggot (unit of measurement) ''For other uses of the term, see faggot A faggot is an archaic imperial unit applied to co...
Level of measurement The level of measurement of a descriptive statistics and significance tests that are appropriate de...
Measurement Measurement is the determination of the size or magnitude of something.
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 Faggot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Faggot is a very old word in English, deriving through the French fagot from the Latin facus, meaning a bundle.
A faggot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually bound together.
\n* A faggot is a type of food eaten mainly in the United Kingdom\n* Faggot is a slang term used (usually perjoratively) to refer to gay men\n* A faggot is an archaic unit of measurement
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Units of quantity equal to 1 through 8 are known, respectively, as the monad, dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, and octad, terms coined by adding -ad to the Greek numbers 1-8.
As a volume measure, the chaldron is equal to 36 bushels, or 288 British Imperial gallons; this is equivalent to 46.237 cubic feet or 1.3091 cubic meters.
Measurements in falls were often made with a rope 6 ells long, and the distance falling under the rope was called a fall.
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 Encyclopedia: Faggot (unit of measurement)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For other uses of the term, see faggot Faggot derivies through the French language fagot from the Latin facus, meaning a bundle (see fasces), the English language word being attested from the 13th century in the meaning of a bundle of sticks or branches, usually bound together.
A faggot is an archaic imperial unit applied to collections of sticks: The Imperial units are an irregularly standardized system of units that have been used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including the United States and Commonwealth countries.
Categories: Obsolete units of measure A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a metre.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
'''Faggot''' derivies through the French language ''fagot'' from the Latin ''facus,'' meaning a bundle (see fasces), the English language word being attested from the 13th century in the meaning of a bundle of sticks or branches, usually bound together.
* A '''faggot (unit of measurement) faggot''' is an archaic unit of measurement.
One of the older definitions of "faggot" is "a bundle of sticks." The fasces found on the reverse of the so-called "Mercury" dime could be loosely defined as a faggot wrapped around a battle-axe.
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 Encyclopedia: Faggot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A faggot is a kind of pork meatball, a traditional dish in parts of the UK, especially Wales and the Black Country.
For other uses of the term, see faggot A faggot is an archaic imperial unit applied to collections of sticks: 1 short faggot of sticks = 2 ft....
Measurement is the determination of the size or magnitude of something.
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 wiki/Faggot (slang) Definition / wiki/Faggot (slang) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Faggot or fag, in modern AmericanThe United States of America, also referred to as the United States, U.S.A., U.S., US, America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia, is a federal republic of fifty states, mostly in central North America.
The word faggot does have a slang meaning in Britain, especially northern England, where it commonly denotes a silly or foolish person—someone who is "as a dumb as a bundle of sticks." In the pilot episode of the Britcom In Loving Memory from Yorkshire Television, undertaker Jeremiah Unsworth is taken under (literally) by an accident.
However, the continuing use of "fag" in British slang to mean cigarette and "faggot" to mean a bundle of sticks (or a fool) has severely limited adoption of the American use of the terms in the British Isles.
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 ☞ reference - unit of measurement - unit of measurement online guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
semicircle a unit of angle measurement equal to 1/2 circle, pi radians, or 180°.
Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe.
Unit of measurement elected head of standards board Oliver Smoot is one of the quintessential pieces of MIT folklore: in 1962 as a pledge of Lambda Chi Alpha Mr.
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 Faggot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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It is most commonly used in reference to wood intended for use as firewood.
Faggot is a slang term used (usually perjoratively) to refer to gay men
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 Faggot (unit of measurement) Definition / Faggot (unit of measurement) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Faggot (unit of measurement) Definition / Faggot (unit of measurement) Research
A faggot is an archaic imperial unitThe Imperial units are an irregularly standardized system of units that have been used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including the United States and Commonwealth countries.
The Imperial system is additionally named the English system, the British system or, perhaps further correctly, the Avoirdupois System.
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 Faggot (unit of measurement) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1 long faggot of sticks = 2 ft. girth × 4 ft. long bundle of long wood sticks/billets
1 faggot of iron = 2 ft. girth × 1 ft. long bundle of iron/steel rods/bars
This page was last modified 21:26, 22 June 2005.
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 Faggot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Or brought a faggot to bright-burning (An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War) Troy?
(A bundle of sticks and branches bound together) Faggot is a (Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar) slang term used (usually pejoratively) to refer to (Click link for more info and facts about gay men) gay men.
A (A bundle of sticks and branches bound together) faggot is an archaic (Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange) unit of measurement.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
''For other uses of the term, see faggot'' A '''faggot''' is an archaic imperial unit applied to collections of sticks: :1 short faggot of sticks = 2 foot (unit of length) ft.
long bundle of short wood sticks/billets :1 long faggot of sticks = 2 ft. girth × 4 ft. long bundle of long wood sticks/billets :1 faggot of iron = 2 ft. girth × 1 ft. long bundle of iron/steel rods/bars Category:Obsolete units of measure
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 Financial Web Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
AP Moeller-Maersk’s Maersk Olie og Gas unit will acquire interests in 10 producing fields owned by Kerr-McGee, with a current total share of production of around 60,000 barrels oil equivalent per day.
Murphy said damage to the unit was minimal, but offered no estimate of when it might restart.
The company reported that its mainline revenue per available seat mile, an industry measure of how much cash an airline brings in for each customer it flies, dropped 5 percent in the quarter from 11.52 cents a year ago to 10.97 cents.
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 Science Fair Projects - Faggot
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A faggot is a type of food eaten mainly in the United Kingdom.
Faggot is a slang term used (usually pejoratively) to refer to gay men.
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 Sumerian compound-sign words - initials S through Z
harvested grain that has just been threshed and only roughly measured with a stick ('grain + 'stick' + 'to exit from' + nominative).
a measure for fish ('portion' + 'a measure'; cf.,
length measure of 10 fingers = 16.666 cm.
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 How Long Is a Piece of String?
"In 1983 the General Conference on Weights and Measures discarded the krypton standard and redefined the meter in terms of the speed of light--what might be called a theoretical definition.
A tenth of a unit of measure will have the prefix deci in front of the unit so a tenth of a metre will be stated as a decimetre; a hundredth of a metre is a centimetre; a thousandth of a metre is a millimetre.
But, if the unit of measurement is bigger than a metre, we turn to the Greeks:
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 LAMBDA: What Difference Should It Make?
The acceptance of and recognition by mainstream society of first, me as a gay male, second, of my partner, and third, that we are a bona fide family unit, did not come without trial and tribulation.
This area is measurable by the persons level of comfort with their choice.
The basic unit of measurement is your level of comfort with events that occur in your life as a homosexual person (e.g., in my professional life, I have experienced movement from this phase back to step two, exploration, because of events beyond my control that created a risk problem for me).
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 Obsolete Units of measure
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Even in wars which can be called 'legal', protagonists are > obliged, first, to negotiate and are answerable, supposedly, to > international laws and treaties, for their actions.
The natural laws of the universe, or "cosmic laws", are energies perceived by humans through direct observation, meditation/contemplation or revelation.
For example, the law of gravity is dense, measureable, and readily understood, while the powerful law of love is subtle and, to date, surpasses scientific "proof".
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 NG BBS - Look at this!!!!
-the unit of measurement that flash uses for angles is not degrees, but radians.
you can easily convert from one unit of measurement to the other to work in a more familiar manner.
what about ur fucking name....evilshark, yea thats very original you fucking faggot.
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 English for US Speakers-Spelling
I would never use the second of each of these pairs of words.
Faggot (bundle of sticks) / Faggoting (embroidery) / Wagon, Waggon
Fagot, Faggot (bundle of sticks) /Fagoting, faggoting (embroidery) / Wagon
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