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	Foot (unit of length) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1958 the United States and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations defined the length of the international yard to be 0.9144 metres.
		In some cases, the foot is denoted by a prime, which is often approximated by an apostrophe, and the inch by a double prime.
		Some metrologists speculate that the imperial foot was adapted from an Egyptian measure by the Greeks, with a subsequent larger foot being adopted by the Romans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foot_(unit_of_length) (982 words)

	G5050 How to Measure Trees and Logs, MU Extension
		A third unit of measure is the "cubic foot." In the United States, the cubic foot unit of measure is used chiefly in growth and yield studies or in forest inventory and research projects, but generally not in commercial dealings.
		A "chord foot" is 12 inches measured along the chord, inside the bark, from "sapwood to sapwood," or from "heartwood to heartwood." Prices per chord foot depend primarily upon the quality and amount of heartwood (redwood) in the bolt and also upon the length of the bolt.
		Measuring the board-foot content of a log or a group of logs is known as log scaling.
	muextension.missouri.edu /xplor/agguides/forestry/g05050.htm (2468 words)

	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 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.
		This unit was equal to 2 shaftments, and it was measured "by hand," grasping a rod with both hands, thumbs extended and touching.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictF.html (4990 words)

	measure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A measurement is a comparison with a known unit.
		the measure, a number comparing the quantity to be measured with an accepted unit of measurement.
		Measurement has direct measurement -- any measurement that is obtained by placing a measuring instrument directly on the object whose dimensions are to be measured, and indirect measurement-- any measurement that is not a direct measurement (use a scientific instrument to determine the distance across the river).
	pigseye.kennesaw.edu /~rouyang/ece4401/measure.html (414 words)

	Roman and Egyptian Foot
		The foot of 294.355 corresponds to a mina of 425.073 grams.
		Measurement is that part of science that is nearest to religion, since in this area the scrupulous testing of right and wrong is the issue: one could say that measurement is the nemesis of any incorrect scientific theory and procedure.
		All units of length, except the artabic foot and cubit, which is a special derivation of the Roman foot, exist in two varieties related as the cube root of 24 divided by the cube root of 25, which I call trimmed and natural versions.
	www.metrum.org /measures/romegfoot.htm (11842 words)

	Units: P
		These units are based on the width of a person's outstretched hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, a definition identical to that of the English span.
		This was measured in pF units as the logarithm of the pressure in centimeters of water.
		Dynamic viscosity is measured by stating the force needed to move a standard area of one layer of the liquid or gas with respect to another layer, the two layers being parallel and separated by a standard distance filled with the same liquid or gas.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictP.html (9597 words)

	Common measure. Evolution of the real numbers.
		It could be either the unit of measure itself, such as 1 inch, or one of its unit fractions, such as ¼ inch.
		If the unit of measure is 1 mile, and L is a straight line, then what are the possible common measures of 1 mile and L? 1 mile itself, or one of its unit fractions.
		AB and the unit of measure have a common measure.
	www.themathpage.com /areal/common-measure.htm (804 words)

	Core Knowledge - Lesson Plans
		Pass out the record sheet and explain the objects that the students will estimate and then measure (the length of a bookshelf, the width of a door, the height of their partners, the length of a table, and the height of a coat).
		However, because weight is the measurement of gravitational force on an object, the farther one is away from the center of the Earth the less one weighs.
		Have three or four containers that involve various measurements using the quart container to fill a cup, pint, gallon, liter etc. It may be easier to use rice instead of liquid to save spills, but try to allow the students to use liquid at least once.
	www.coreknowledge.org /CK/resrcs/lessons/398Measure.htm (6188 words)

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		Each entry specifies the base unit for the measure, and the other units that are defined.
		Measurement units are delimited by exponents or the period symbol (".") The division slash "/" may appear once in a unit specification.
		See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html TEMPERATURE-MEASURE base unit: K (degree kelvin) :units F (degree Fahrenheit) C (degree Celsius) or Centigrade R (degree Rankine) Fahrenheit counterpart to Kelvin Note: The temperature measure differs from all the others in that it is linked to a scale with different zero points for various measures.
	www.isi.edu /isd/LOOM/documentation/unit-definitions.text (513 words)

	Illuminations: Going Places
		In this lesson, students use nonstandard units to measure the distance between objects found in their classroom.
		They create a nonstandard unit by using an outline of the teacher’s foot and cutting around it to use as a “measurer.” Students generate a list of four or five objects in the classroom from which they will measure the distance to their workspace.
		While one student measures, the other might record.] A Student Recording Sheet, Getting There With Teacher’s Foot, is provided for students to draw pictures of the destination objects and to write the number of “feet” required to reach them.
	illuminations.nctm.org /index_d.aspx?id=67 (764 words)

	International System of units and principal conversions unit of measure
		All it is born from the requirement to use common units of measure for the quantification and the measure of the physical quiantity, for favor the commercial exchanges and the scientific studies, between persons of the same, or different nation.
		To such sense in 1875, in those of Paris, the single representatives of 17 countries, gathered in order to approve of the CONVENTION on the METER, and consequently to adopt the Units for the Measure of the lengths.
		In the course of the years they have been inserted other fundamental units, until arriving to the 7 fundamental quantity, with the 2 additional units currently in use in International System, multiple and the decimal submultiples, and the other derived units.
	members.tripod.com /units_of_measure/principale_e.htm (274 words)

	acre-foot
		A unit used to measure volumes of water, typically for use in irrigation.
		One acre-foot is the volume of water sufficient to cover an acre of land to a depth of 1 foot, = 43,560 cubic feet, approximately 325,851 U.S. gallons (approximately 1233.
		At current American rates of consumption, on average 1 acre-foot of water is enough to meet the industrial and municipal demands of 4 people for a year.
	www.sizes.com /units/acrefoot.htm (110 words)

	MoDNR Advisory Committee on Chip Mills-Revised Draft Final Report-Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It relates to lumber that is 1 foot long, 1 foot wide, and 1 inch thick (or its equivalent).
		(Note: Stocking is measured by comparing specified standards with basal area and /or number of trees, age or size, and spacing.) The minimum area for classification of forest land is 1 acre.
		It is the basic unit of the forest to which a silvicultural treatment is applied.
	www.dnr.mo.gov /chipmills/cm_final_glossary.htm (2768 words)

	Feet definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		The foot is a particularly complex structure made up of dozens of bones that work together with muscles and tendons to execute precise movements.
		As a measure of length, a foot is 12 inches or a third of a yard or, metrically, 30.48 centimeters.
		The foot was originally the length of a man's foot and served as a measurement of land.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3405 (251 words)

	City of Mishawaka, Indiana - Weights & Measures
		The Department of Weights and Measures is home to the Weights and Measures inspector who checks scales for accurate weights for items that are purchased by the pound, liquid as measured by the gallon, non-liquid merchandise as measured by the bushal; or, distance as determined by lineal measure or the foot.
		The Board of Public Works and Safety shall appoint an Inspector of Weights and Measures, subject to the approval of the State Division of Weights and Measures (pursuant to IC 24-6-3-4, as may be amended from time to time).
		of Weights and Measures shall, within five days after notice of his appointment shall have been given to him, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law for other city officers, which oath shall be endorsed upon his certificate of appointment, and filed herewith, in the office of the City Clerk.
	www.mishawakacity.com /weightsandmeasures.asp (519 words)

	INTRA NET PLAN
		Within the legislation, the U.S. Survey Foot was specified in 11 states and the International Foot was specified in 6 states.
		In all other states the meter is the only referenced unit of measure in the SPCS 83 legisla- tion.
		From 1977 until the present, NGS has maintained the meter as the official unit of measure for SPCS 83 and the unit on which plane coordinates would be based within NGS published data (42 FR 15943).
	www.ngs.noaa.gov /INFO/Policy/st_plane.html (690 words)

	Math Forum: Measurement:MS Dr. Math:Unit Conversion
		Below are some questions and answers from our archive of questions sent via e-mail by K12 students and teachers to Ask Dr. Math.
		Find the unit of measure for (3 pounds over 1 square inch) * (144 square inches over 1 square foot)....
		The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel School of Education.
	mathforum.org /paths/measurement/m.drmath.unitconv.html (442 words)

	Weights And Measure: Unit Conversions 2000, Balance Keeper, Area Measure Converter, ...
		Unit Conversions 2000 is a small utility that will allow you to quickly convert units of measure from one system to another.
		Mac PDF Measure It is an Acrobat plug-in tool, it enables accurate measurement of the distance and angle between two points on a page.
		JUnitConv is an universal Units of Measure Converter built as a Java Applet, it supports an unlimited number of Units Categories, Units of Measure and Multiplier Prefixes that could be customized using external text files.
	www.fileedge.com /get/weights-and-measure (453 words)

	Quahog.org: Rhode Island as a Unit of Measure
		It's ironic then, that Rhode Island's status as the smallest of the states has led to its being used as a standard unit of measure for things that are really big.
		Measuring 100 miles by 35 miles, [Puerto Rico is] the size of three Rhode Islands, and with three-and-a-half million people, the population of three Hawaiis.
		According to the government's own statistics, the entire yearly demand for heroin in the United States can be met by less than 25 square miles of opium-poppy fields; 250 square miles, about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island, is enough to meet our yearly cocaine demand.
	www.quahog.org /factsfolklore/index.php?id=12 (7153 words)

	What unit of measure is a "diamond"? I read that the foot spot was "2 diamonds" from the foot rail. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I read that the foot spot was "2 diamonds" from the foot rail.
		Some tables have round dots, which look like thumb-tack heads, but the markers are traditionally diamond-shaped and inlaid flush with the surface of the rail.
		The diamonds are spaced evenly apart and the space between two consecutive diamonds would measure 1/8 the length of the table, which is equally 1/4 its width.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view/2435 (341 words)

	MoDNR Advisory Committee on Chip Mills Final Report Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Biodiversity - Diversity of organisms that exists at different scales (micro, meso, macro, etc.), as measured by the number of different species (richness) and their distribution over the landscape (evenness)
		Stocking - Refers to the occupancy of a site (number of trees or basal area per unit area) relative to the optimum the site can carry.
		Succession -- An orderly change in community species composition over time, with each community possessing species that are adapted to the specific conditions that exist at that time.
	www.dnr.mo.gov /chipmills/fr_glossary.htm (2768 words)

	FootRule - Unit Conversion, Weights & Measures Homepage
		This site provides unit conversion, metric conversion, Unit Conversion, unit conversion calculator, Unit Conversion Calculator, unit conversions, unit converter, Units, units conversion, units conversions, units converter.
		Weights and Measures, weights and measures, weights and measures, units of measure.
		This site relies heavily on Javascript and you will not be able to make use of the facilities without it.
	www.footrule.com (280 words)

	AllMeasures.com-units of measure, conversion table, converters
		Non-metric measures, SI (meter-kilogram-second +), CGS (centimeter-gram-second), financial/inflation -- conversion tables and calculators
		To see a Partial Conversion Table or Converter, choose Categories below and click button "Conversion Table" or "Converter"
		Full Conversion Table (sorted by Measure Unit Name)
	www.allmeasures.com (47 words)

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