Length measurements
12 inches = 1 food
3 feet = 1 yard
220 yards = 1 fulrong
8 furlongs = 1 mile
5280 feet = 1 mile
1760 yards = 1 mile
Mass & Weights
437.5 grains = ounce
16 ounces = 1 pound
14 pounds = 1 stone
100 pounds = 1 hundredweight
20 cwt = 1 ton
2000 pounds - 1 short ton
2240 pounds = 1 long ton
Liquid Capacity
16 fuild ounces = 1 pint
4 gills = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 pints = 1 gallon
Area Measurements
144 square inches = 1 square foot
9 square feet = 1 square yard
43,560 square feet = 1 acre
4,840 sqare yards - 1 acre
640 acres = 1 square mile
Troy Weights
24 grains = 1 pennyweight
20 pennyweights - 1 ounce
12 ounces = 1 pound
Apothecaries Measures
60 minims = 1 fl. dram
8 fl.drams - 1 fl. ounce
16 fl.ounces = 1 pint
Volume measurement
1728 cubic inches = 1 cubic foot
27 cubic inches = 1 cubic yard
Apothecaries Weights
20 grains = 1 scruple
3 scruple = 1 dram
8 drams = 1 ounce
12 ounces = 1 pound
Dry Capacity
16 fluid ounces = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart
8 quarts = 1 peck
4 pecks = 1 bushel
two units of measurements are MKS and CGS systems
As far as I know, the US is the only country that still uses the English Standard, or Imperial, units of measure. All other countries have completely adopted the Metric system. Although, I do not know with certainty that some places of the world do not use the Imperial units whatsoever... there might still be places with a familiarity. Metrics are catching on in the US, but slowly.
There are no "opposites" to measurement systems. There are alternative measurement systems.Earlier systems include the so-called English system, and the French avoirdupois.
Acres are units of area in English or Imperial units.Kilometer are units of length in metric units.One is not convertible to the other.
500 meters which are metric units is equivalent to 546.806649 yards. This is also 19,685.0394 inches, 1,640.41995feet, 0.310685596 miles, 2.48548477 furlongs in length.
Because of their association with the Brittish Empire.
=7.8611... imperial units
Scroll down to related links and look at "Conversion of units - Wikipedia".
Ten times the basic unit. Although I have not come across it in any Imperial units.
Yes. Miles, yards, feet and inches are Imperial units - kilometres, metres, centimetres and millimetres are Metric units.
A meter is the standard unit of length. If you are accustomed to the imperial units, it is about 1.1 yards.A meter is the standard unit of length. If you are accustomed to the imperial units, it is about 1.1 yards.A meter is the standard unit of length. If you are accustomed to the imperial units, it is about 1.1 yards.A meter is the standard unit of length. If you are accustomed to the imperial units, it is about 1.1 yards.
in the 1700
The conversion factor between imperial temperature units (Fahrenheit) and metric temperature units (Celsius) is 5/9.
Every single one of them. What's strange is that anyone even uses something as inaccurate and antiquated as imperial units.
Because Imperial Units are based on ten
Stones are units of weight in the Imperial Weights & Measures System.
What is two imperial unit of linear measurement