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Imperial unit

Pole (unit of length)

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	Imperial unit
		In metrology, Imperial units are the measurement units that were generaused in the British Commonwealth countries in the past.
		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.
		The Imperial gallon is defined as the volume of 10 avoirdupois pounds of water under specified conditions, and the Imperial bushel is defined as 8 Imperial gallons.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/im/Imperial_units.html (892 words)

	Online Conversion - The Imperial Units
		The use of SI units is increasingly mandated by law for the retail sale of food and other commodities, but many British people still use Imperial units in colloquial discussion of distance (miles and yards), speed (miles per hour), weight (stones and pounds), liquid (pints and gallons) and height (feet and inches).
		Imperial units were eliminated from all road signs, although both systems of measurement will still be found on privately-owned signs (such as the height warnings at the entrance of a multi-storey parking facility).
		Traditional units persist in ordinary conversation and may be experiencing a resurgence due to the reduction in trade barriers with the United States.
	www.onlineconversion.com /article_UK_units.htm (967 words)

	Metric System
		The Imperial system was based largely on human dimensions, for example, the length of a human foot or the length of an arm (yard).
		For instance, in the original metric system the metre was defined as being 10-millionth the distance between the Pole and the equator.
		The metric system is the system used everywhere in science and in medicine.
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	Imperial unit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Imperial system is also called the English system, the British system or, perhaps more correctly, the (A system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)) Avoirdupois System.
		The Imperial gallon was originally defined as the volume of 10 avoirdupois pounds of water under specified conditions, and the Imperial bushel was defined as 8 Imperial gallons.
		The tables of Imperial troy mass and apothecaries' mass are the same as the corresponding United States tables, except for the British spelling "drachm" in the table of apothecaries' mass.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/im/imperial_unit.htm (1925 words)

	English units of measurement. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The basic unit of length is the yard (yd); fractions of the yard are the inch (1/36 yd) and the foot (1/3 yd), and commonly used multiples are the rod (51/2 yd), the furlong (220 yd), and the mile (1,760 yd).
		The barrel is a unit for measuring the capacity of larger quantities and has various legal definitions depending on the quantity being measured, the most common value being 105 dry quarts.
		In the United States, the older definition of the yard as 3,600/3,937 m is still used for surveying, the corresponding foot (1,200/3,937 m) being known as the survey foot.
	www.bartleby.com /65/en/Englsh-u.html (781 words)

	U.S. customary units - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The U.S. customary units (more commonly known in the US as English units or standard units) are the non-metric units of measurement that are presently used in the United States, in some cases alongside the metric system of units.
		This system of units is similar to the Imperial system (sometimes called the British system) once used in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, but has some differences.
		The system for measuring length in the U.S. customary system is based on the inch, foot, yard, and mile.
	open-encyclopedia.com /US_customary_units (1875 words)

	Imperial unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The United Kingdom completed its legal transition to SI units in 1995, but a few such units are still in official use: for example, milk and beer may still be sold in pints, and most roadsigns are still in yards and miles.
		The use of metric (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).
		The Imperial gallon was defined as the volume of 10 avoirdupois pounds of water under specified conditions, and the Imperial bushel was defined as 8 Imperial gallons.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/imperial_unit (1442 words)

	ounce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ounce is the name for a number of different units of mass (oz), and, confusingly, fluid volume (fl oz).
		See Imperial system of units and U.S. customary units for more about the frameworks within which these units are defined.
		The fluid ounce unit of volume also exists in the two versions of 28.4 (Imperial) and 29.6 ml (U.S.).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /ounce.html (226 words)

	Metric, USA and Imperial Measurements + Conversion
		However, the Imperial system uses the "stone", which is not used in the USA system.
		The Imperial and USA systems use similar terms for liquid capacity, but the relationships of the units are not the same.
		The Imperial fluid ounce (equal to 28.413 062 5 milliliters) is slightly smaller than the USA fluid ounce (equal to 29.573 529 562 5 milliliters).
	www.france-property-and-information.com /table-of-metric-and-imperial-units.htm (373 words)

	Physical Quantities
		Another advantage to the SI system is that all of the units for the same dimension are related to each other by powers of ten, which makes it easy to convert.
		A system of units where n is always 1 for every unit (called a coherent set of units) has the advantage that the results of any calculation are already in the correct units.
		The SI unit for mass is the kilogram (kg), which is equal to the mass of the international prototype kilogram.
	userweb.elec.gla.ac.uk /k/kalna/physical_quantities.html (1654 words)

	The International System of Units, by Robert A. Nelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The unit of volume, the pinte (later renamed the litre), was defined as the volume of a cube having a side equal to one-tenth of a meter.
		The unit of mass, the grave (later renamed the kilogramme), was defined as the mass of one pinte of distilled water at the temperature of melting ice.
		For example, the unit of force is the newton, which is equal to a kilogram meter per second squared, and the unit of energy is the joule, equal to a newton meter.
	www.aticourses.com /international_system_units.htm (6282 words)

	Structural engineering other topics - The metric system of units is best !!!
		The old imperial system of units which we British discarded in favour of the SI (metric) system of units, was a total joke.
		We have to differentiate the SI system from the metric or thecnical system.
		Newton is the unit of force=massacc, NOT massg.
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	Imperial and USA systems of measurement.
		The two systems are often confused with each other and sometimes one or the other terms are used to collectively refer to both systems (in particular, Europeans often use the term Imperial system to refer to either systems).
		Although the measurements in the metric system are derived from scientific principles, the English units measurements (and the subsequent USA and Imperial measurements) are based on nature and everyday activities.
		The imperial system (prior to the UK converting to metric) and the USA system have over 300 different measures (see http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/traditional.htm), of which many are ambiguous.
	www.france-property-and-information.com /imperial-system-and-history.htm (1723 words)

	Engineering Units: SI, Metric, Imperial and American Measurements
		Unit symbols are written without a final full stop (period) except for normal punctuation such as at the end of a sentence.
		Unit symbols are placed after the numerical value, leaving a space between the value and the symbol.
		Unit symbols are generally written in lower case letters, except when the name of the unit is derived from a proper name.
	www.windmill.co.uk /units.html (667 words)

	Bambooweb: Imperial units
		The Imperial units are an irregularly standardized system of units that have been used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including the Commonwealth countries.
		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).
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/i/m/Imperial_units.html (1592 words)

	Origin of the Metric System
		One of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth's meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the North Pole).
		The initial metric unit of mass, the “gram,” was defined as the mass of one cubic centimeter — a cube that is 0.01 meter on each side — of water at its temperature of maximum density.
		Seven units — the meter (for length); the kilogram (for mass); the second (for time); the ampere (for electric current); the kelvin (for thermodynamic temperature); the mole (for amount of substance); and the candela (for luminous intensity) — were established as the base units for the system.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~hillger/origin.html (1387 words)

	DANotes: Units,dimensions and conversion factors
		A unit is measure of a certain physical 'entity', for example the centimetre unit is a measure of the entity length, the kilometre/hour a unit of the entity speed, and so on.
		In the Imperial System the unit of mass, the 'pound' (lb), and the unit of length, the 'foot' (ft), are currently defined in terms of SI units - conversion factors of 2.205 lb/kg and 0.3048 m/ft apply - while the unit of time is identical to the SI second.
		Systems like the Imperial in which a mass's weight is equal numerically to the mass itself are called 'gravitational systems'.
	www.mech.uwa.edu.au /DANotes/units/units.html (1931 words)

	Online Conversion - The Traditional U.S. Units
		The U.S. customary units, commonly known in the United States as English units or standard units, are the non-SI (non-metric) units of measurement that are currently used in the U.S., in some cases alongside the International System of Units.
		This system of units is similar to, but not to be confused with, the Imperial system still used in the United Kingdom.
		The units of area in the U.S. customary system are mostly based on the units of length squared, e.g., square inch (sq in, 645.16 mm²;).
	www.onlineconversion.com /article_US_units.htm (2160 words)

	Imperial Measurement Units
		Imperial units are the measurement units that were historically used in the British Commonwealth countries.
		They were very similar, but not identical, to the units that are still predominantly used in the United States.
		Because references to the units of the old British customary imperial units are still found, the following discussion describes the differences between the U.S. and British customary systems.
	www.metric-conversion-tables.com /imperialunitsmeasurement.htm (487 words)

	Units of Weights & Measures
		The use of the SI System has slowly and steadily increased in the United States, particularly in the scientific community; however, the general public still uses, almost exclusively, the U.S. Customary System.
		In the SI System, the basic units are the units of length, mass, and time, and are called respectively, the meter (m), the kilogram (kg), and the second (s).
		In the U.S. Customary System the base units are the units of length, force, and time, and are called respectively, the foot (ft), the pound (lb), and the second (s).
	www.braeunig.us /space/units.htm (486 words)

	Units in Electrical Engineering
		The key to creating a system of units is to define some base units in terms of some (ideally) portable, reproducable, immutable physical phenomena, then to derive other units from these definitions.
		The unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram.
		A unit of length in the International System of Units (SI); currently defined as a fixed number (1,650,763.73) of wavelengths, in vacuum, of the orange-red line of the spectrum of krypton-86.
	www.ee.unb.ca /tervo/ee2791/units.htm (755 words)

	Imperial unit : Imperial system of units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In metrology, Imperial units are the measurement units that were generaused in the British Commonwealth countries in the past.
		They were very similar, but not identical, to the units that are still predominantly used in the United States (see U.S. customary units).
		A similar situation existed for the U.S. and the British mass unit pound, and many relationships, such as 12 inches = 1 foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, and 1760 yards = 1 international mile, were the same in both countries; but there were some very important differences.
	www.eurofreehost.com /im/Imperial_system_of_units.html (425 words)

	Units: Customary Units
		Meanwhile, all land in England was traditionally measured by the gyrd or rod, an old Saxon unit probably equal to 20 "natural feet." The Norman kings had no interest in changing the length of the rod, since the accuracy of deeds and other land records depended on that unit.
		Most area units were eventually defined to be the area of a square having sides equal to some simple multiple of a distance unit, like the square yard.
		Larger volumes of liquids were carried in barrels, hogsheads, or other containers whose size in gallons tended to vary with the commodity, with wine units being different from beer and ale units or units for other liquids.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/custom.html (2279 words)

	Imperial System – units of measure - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		Imperial System – units of measure - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		, measure of mass in the metric system, equal to 0.001 kg.
		A gram was originally defined as the mass of 1 cc of pure water at the...
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210064298_1/Gram.html (41 words)

	Ounce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ounce is the name for a number of different units of mass (oz), and, confusingly, of two units of fluid volume (fl oz) and of one unit of force, the ounce-force (ozf).
		The ounce-force (see pound-force) is the force exerted by a mass of 1 oz avoirdupois at the standard acceleration of gravity, usually borrowing the value which is official for defining kilograms-force, 9.80665 m/s²;.
		The Dutch term ons is a unit of mass that is considerably more, 100 g, a redefinition adopted with the introduction of the metric system together with a redefinition of the Dutch pond as 1 kg.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/ounce.html (330 words)

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