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What unit of measure was once defined as the length of three grains of barley laid end to end?
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Why did the English use 3 grains of barley arranged end to end?
Barley grains are very uniform and about 8mm in length, 3 together equal about an inch.
What is a measure of time defined by earths orbital motion?
The only thing the Earth orbits is the sun so the length of time it defines is 1 year. Hours, minutes and seconds were originally defined by the time it takes the Earth to spin on it's axis. One year can be expressed as hours, minutes and seconds but this time is gradually changing.
What is the basic SI unit to measure length is?
the correct answer is meters
How do you measure concrete wall to be painted?
Measure floor to ceiling, measure wall length. Multiply one by the other, you now have the surface to be covered.
How do you measure the square feet of a groin vault ceiling?
Groin vault ceiling: length x width.
Why did the English use 3 grains of barley arranged end to end?
Barley grains are very uniform and about 8mm in length, 3 together equal about an inch.
Is gry a word?
A gry is an old English measure for length, defined as 1/10 of a line, where line is another measure of length, defined as 1/12 inch.
What unit of measurement do you use to measure rice grains?
You must first decide what you want to measure about the rice grains: their length, circumference, mass, weight, volume, color, elasticity, etc.
How many cm in grans?
Centimetres measure length, grams and grains measure weight (mass). You can't convert the one to the other.
How can the radian measure of an angle determine the arc length on the unit circle?
The radian measure IS the arc length of the unit circle, by definition - that is how the radian is defined in the first place.
What equals length?
It is usually a measure of distance. The distance is often along a straight line or it could refer to the length of an arc, and depends on the metric that is defined on the relevant space.
How did we measure a building when there was no rulers?
The earliest known length measurement unit is the cubit: the length from the point of a bent elbow to the tip of the longest finger. Because this length varies from person to person the King's arm was used as the standard cubit and "cubit rods" were cut to that length and used by everyone else to measure lengths and distances. Other units were determined similarly: the standard foot being the length of the king's foot, the inch is the length of 3 barley corns placed end to end, etc.
What do you measure with length?
You don't measure with length. You measure the length of an object with a ruler. You would use inches or metres as your units.
How do you measure bridge span?
The maximum length between any two supporting piers, as defined by the void between the piers' edges in a single straight line.
Does a centimeters measure weight or length?
Longitud. es la centésima parte de el metro.
Is a metricstick used to measure length?
Yes it is used to measure length.
Is centimeter a mass?
No. A centimeter is a measure of length. Any unit of measure that has a meter in it is a measure of length. For example, millimeters, meters, kilometers are all units of measure for length.
