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	hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The hand is a portion of the arm or anterior limb of a human or other primate, at where the appendage terminates.
		Using the term hand is merely a scientific usage of anthropomorphization, to distinguish the terminations of the front paws from the hind ones.
		Something that is like a human hand, such as the rotating pointer on the face of a clock with analog display or on a gauge or dial (hand (mechanisms)).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Hand.html (1076 words)

	Hand (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hand (or handbreadth) is a unit of length measurement, usually based on the breadth of a male human hand and thus around 1 dm, i.e.
		Today it is only used for the height of horses in the United States and the United Kingdom.
		In this context, one hand equals four inches (10.16 cm).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hand_(unit_of_length) (156 words)

	Old Units of Length
		Length units used in land surveying are discussed in the article "Chaining." Other units were defined for use in printing, textiles, and other areas of commerce.
		This was a bad choice for defining a unit of length, worse than simply making a couple of arbitrary scratches on a bar, since it involved a difficult and tedious procedure, especially when the news arrived in France that the earth was not a sphere to a sufficient approximation.
		Length is now defined in terms of the speed of light, assumed to be an exact value (299792458 m/s), and time by the frequency of atomic vibrations, to a rather great precision.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/tech/oldleng.htm (2464 words)

	Imperial unit - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The United Kingdom completed its legal transition to SI units in 1995, but a few such units are still in official use: for example, beer may still be sold in pints; most roadsign distances are still in yards and miles, and speed limits are in miles per hour.
		The use of SI units is increasingly mandated by law for the retail sale of food and other commodities, but most British people still use Imperial units in colloquial discussion of distance (miles and yards), speed (miles per hour), weight (stones and pounds) and height (feet and inches).
		In the United States these two are not the same, the gallon and its subdivisions are used in the measurement of liquids; the bushel, with its subdivisions, is used in the measurement of certain dry commodities.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Imperial_units (1619 words)

	Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Using the term hand is merely a scientific usage of anthropomorphization, to distinguish the terminations of the front pawsfrom the hind ones.
		A reliable way ofidentifying true hands is from the presence of opposable thumbs.Opposable thumbs are identified by the ability to be brought opposite to the fingers.
		Something that is like a human hand, such as the rotating pointer on the face of a clock with analog display or ona gauge or dial (hand(mechanisms)).
	www.therfcc.org /hand-6713.html (989 words)

	Units: S
		These are units of flow rate for gases, and the term "standard" indicates that the flow rate assumes a standard temperature and a standard pressure of 1 atmosphere.
		This length was adopted by the British Navy as the definition of the shackle in 1949.
		The length varied with the material; a spindle of cotton yarn, for example, was 15 120 yards (13.826 km), and a spindle of jute was 14 400 yards (13.167 km).
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictS.html (10439 words)

	Units: L
		The distance between competitors in horse races, boat races, and similar situations is naturally expressed in lengths, with one length equal to the average length of a horse, boat, etc. In horse racing, the length of a horse is often understood to be about 8 feet or 2.4 meters.
		The libra was the Roman unit from which the English pound is descended; the symbol "lb" for the pound comes from this unit.
		This unit, equal to about 384 401 kilometers or 238 855 miles, is used to measure the "miss distances" of asteroids passing near the Earth.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictL.html (4272 words)

	hand. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A unit of length equal to 4 inches (10.2 centimeters), used especially to specify the height of a horse.
		Involvement or participation: “In all this was evident the hand of the counterrevolutionaries” (John Reed).
		To carry, strike, or propel (the ball) with the hand or arm in violation of the rules in soccer.
	www.bartleby.com /61/3/H0040300.html (883 words)

	Length
		Length is a one-dimensional concept related to the geometric concepts of direction and line.
		Length measures need to be investigated in the many practical situations in which they occur, for example, as length, width, depth, height, thickness or closeness of objects.
		Measuring the length of objects using non-standard or informal units is the third stage in the learning sequence.
	www.nzmaths.co.nz /Measurement/Length/Length.htm (1720 words)

	Imperial unit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the United States, the adjective imperial is only used with those new units of volume introduced in 1824, the imperial gallon and its subdivisions (pints, fluid ounces) and multiples (bushels, barrels).
		Depth of water at sea was expressed in ((mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore) fathoms (6 feet = 1.8288 m).
		In all the systems, the fundamental unit is the (16 ounces) pound, and all other units are defined as fractions or multiples of it.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/im/imperial_unit.htm (1925 words)

	Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The human hand has 27 bones: the carpus or wrist account for 8; the metacarpus or palm contains 5; the remaining 14 are digital bones.
		Also called phalanges, hands contain 14 of them; 2 in the thumb, and 3 in each of the four fingers.
		Located on the underside of the forearm, attached by tendons to the phalanges of the fingers, these allow for the actual bending of the fingers and thumb.
	www.wordlookup.net /ha/hand.html (1006 words)

	The Royal Cubit
		There is evidence that the measurement unit known as the Royal Cubit was already in use as much as one hundred years prior to the building of the Great Pyramid, and perhaps even somewhat earlier.
		If, as we have presupposed, the distance of 6,046 feet had been determined to be the length of a minute of latitude (i.e., a 60th of a degree), then it would have been appropriate to have further divided this amount by 60ths in search of a unit standard.
		However, irrespective of the units in which they may have been measured, the actual lengths of the 'thirds' of longitude would have been found to be the same as described here.
	www.sover.net /~rc/deep_secrets/cubit (1870 words)

	CSS2 syntax and basic data types
		'em' unit is equal to the computed value of the 'font-size' property of the element on which it is used.
		Pixel units are relative to the resolution of the viewing device, i.e., most often a computer display.
		Absolute length units are only useful when the physical properties of the output medium are known.
	www.w3.org /TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html (4673 words)

	Brownridge SI Material
		The word "per" means "divided by." So the SI unit of speed is a meter per second--the unit of distance divided by the unit of time.
		Pronounce units and their multiples with the primary stress on the first syllable, so the sound of the prefix won't be lost.
		The SI unit of force is derived from this equation.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~hillger/brownridge.html (3745 words)

	Fahrenhalf Degrees - Science Forums and Debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We definde these units by taking value of fundamental constants like h bar, electronic charge, 4 pi epsilon not etc. all to be equal to unity.
		It would be possible to augment these units by setting electron's charge = 1 and have something of the best of both worlds: units which are natural both for Quantum Gravity and also for QED or QFT.
		I want to consider some everyday units in which the numerical values of the constants are powers of ten.
	www.scienceforums.net /forums/showthread.php?t=6010 (2477 words)

	Elementary Test Prep: Math 4 Test (Grades 3-4) Metric system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A kilometer is about the length of 100 school buses lined up end to end.
		To change from a larger unit of length to a smaller unit of length, multiply.
		To change from a smaller unit of length to a larger unit of length, divide.
	www.oswego.org /testprep/math4/d/metricl.cfm (152 words)

	Giant Mystery
		The unit explores relationships between the hand length, width, span of a person and their height and other body measurements.
		Throughout we will be measuring and recording length; exploring the relationship between metres, centimetres and millimetres; organising data; presenting and interpreting graphs; identifying number relationships; and applying number relationships.
		Measure their hand lengths in both centimetres and millimetres and use both measurements to predict their height.
	www.nzmaths.co.nz /Measurement/Length/giantmystery.htm (1106 words)

	HAND - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Hand (f), Hand (f) (des Meisters, etc.), hand, hand (de) : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include HAND: right hand, left hand, second hand, fl hand, dead hand, more...
		Words similar to HAND: deal, give, handed, handing, handwriting, hook, manus, mauler, mitt, pass, paw, reach, script, applause, bridge player, helping hand, hired hand, hired man, pass on, turn over, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=HAND (617 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Someone's own style of handwriting or a particular type of handwriting, such as Italic or Cursive.
		In Internet slang "HAND" means "have a nice day".
		This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Hand_(disambiguation) (225 words)

	Hand Article, Hand Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The hand canalso form a fist, for example in combat, or as a gesture.
		Someone's own style of handwriting or a particular type of handwriting,such as Italic or Cursive.
		We take no responsibility for the content, accuracy and use of this article.
	www.anoca.org /bones/muscles/hand.html (1046 words)

	One Hand Clapping
		Bush met with families of 26 soldiers killed in Iraq, and thus appeared to be a concerted effort by the White House to deal with a political problem.
		I cannot think of any reason that the president of the United States is somehow obligated to attend the funeral of a soldier killed in action.
		Also it [the Beast] causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
	donaldsensing.com /2003_11_01_archive.html (11433 words)

	XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
		In the above example, the value of the someElement element is not a ·list· of ·length· 3; rather, it is a ·list· of ·length· 18.
		For each of ·length·, ·maxLength· and ·minLength·, the unit of length is measured in number of list items.
		A character is an atomic unit of communication; it is not further specified except to note that every character has a corresponding Universal Character Set code point, which is an integer.
	www.w3.org /TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/datatypes.html (8534 words)

	Analyzer measures orange peel and DOI., Gardner, Paul N., Co., Inc.
		January 13, 2005 - Suited for curved and small parts, Micro-Wave-Scan features selectable scan length of 20, 10, or 5 cm and measurement area of 4 mm x scan length.
		Hand-held unit can measure curvature greater than 300 mm.
		Structure spectrum gives information about various structure sizes, and cause of appearance changes can be analyzed.
	news.thomasnet.com /fullstory/459103/rss (622 words)

	Distance and Length conversion online
		Please seek help from your local computer guru if you are unable to fix this problem yourself.
		Distance and Length conversion, conversion factors, conversion chart, measurement calculator, unit conversions, kilometer,
		Discover a universal assistant of all of your unit conversion needs now!
	www.convert-me.com /en/convert/length (316 words)

	Science Forums and Debate - Fahrenhalf Degrees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		09-18-2004 02:38 AM It seems like this something like "atomic units" that was taught to us while we did quantum mechanics.
		09-18-2004 08:24 AM Another point that I'd like to add is that often when such natural units are introduced, not only is the value of certain constants set to one but also they are made dimensionless constants.
		09-18-2004 07:10 PM Gbar units gradually taking shape
	www.scienceforums.net /forums/printthread.php?t=6010 (2202 words)

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