How many inches are there in a hand
"Biblical exegesis the hand measurement, as for example in the Vision of the Temple, Authorized Version , is usually taken to be palm or handbreadth, and in modern translations may be rendered as ""handbreadth"" or ""three inches"". The hand is a traditional unit in the UK. It was standardised at four inches by a statute of King Henry VIII in 1540, but some confusion between the various types of hand measurement, and particularly between the hand and the handsbreadth, appears to have persisted. Phillips's dictionary of 1706 gives four inches for the length of the handful or hand, and three"
"inches (15.24 cm). Other spellings include schaftmond and scaeftemunde, and shathmont. It is derived from Old English ""sceaft"", in turn from Germanic ""skaftaz"" (shaft) and OE ""mund"", from the Germanic ""mund"", in turn from Indo-European root ""man"" (hand.) Two shaftments make a ""pes"" ""manualis"", literally Latin for ""a foot fitted to the hand."" This unit has mostly fallen out of use, as have others based on the human arm: digit (1/8 shaftment), finger (7/48 shaftment), palm (1/2 shaftment) hand (2/3 shaftment), span (1.5 shaftments), cubit (3 shaftments) and ell (7.5 shaftments). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - How"
"Hand (unit) The hand is a non-SI unit of measurement of length standardized to . It is used to measure the height of horses in some English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was originally based on the breadth of a human hand. The adoption of the international inch in 1959 allowed for a standardized imperial form and a metric conversion. It may be abbreviated to ""h"" or ""hh"". Although measurements between whole hands are usually expressed in what appears to be decimal format, the subdivision of the hand is"
"him an inch and he'll take a mile"" and ""Give him an inch and he'll take a yard"". Inch The inch (abbreviation: in or ″) is a unit of length in the (British) imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia (""twelfth""), the word ""inch"" is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb. Standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of"
"usually a sixteenth of a foot or 3/4"" (1.905 cm for the international inch). The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about 2 centimetres. In English this unit has mostly fallen out of use, as do others based on the human arm: finger (7/6 digit), palm (4 digits), hand (16/3 digits), shaftment (8 digits), span (12 digits), cubit (24 digits) and ell (60 digits). It is in general equal to the foot-nail, although the term nail can also be used as 1/16 of yard and other units. In astronomy a digit is, or was until recently,"
"Many? - A Dictionary of Units of Measurement Shaftment The shaftment is a unit of length, 6 - 6½ inches or 2 palms, i.e. 15.24 cm. A shaftment is the width of the fist and outstretched thumb. The lengths of poles, staves, etc. can be easily measured by grasping the bottom of the staff with thumb extended and repeating such hand over hand grips along the length of the staff. It occurs in Anglo-Saxon written records as early as 910 and in English as late as 1474. After the modern foot came into use in the twelfth century, the shaftment"
"of the palm where the knuckles are, but excluding the thumb. The measurement in inches is the glove size, but if one's arms are large, it may be practical to go up a size. Generally, an evening glove is considered to be a true ""opera-length"" glove if it reaches to mid-biceps or higher on the wearer's arm, notwithstanding its actual length in inches or buttons; therefore, a petite woman might find a glove with a measurement of 16 or 17 inches adequate for the purpose, while a tall woman might need a glove longer than 22 inches. A glove shorter"
"Inch The inch (abbreviation: in or ″) is a unit of length in the (British) imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia (""twelfth""), the word ""inch"" is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb. Standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s it has been based on the metric system and defined"
"right-hand ""top"" fingers. For example, 9 × 6 would look like this, with the left index finger touching the right little finger: In this example, there are 5 ""bottom"" fingers (the left index, middle, ring, and little fingers, plus the right little finger), 1 left ""top"" finger (the left thumb), and 4 right ""top"" fingers (the right thumb, index finger, middle finger, and ring finger). So the computation goes as follows: 9 × 6 = (10 × 5) + (1 × 4) = 54. Consider another example, 8 × 7: Five bottom fingers make 5 tens, or 50. Two top"
"Shaftment The shaftment is a unit of length, 6 - 6½ inches or 2 palms, i.e. 15.24 cm. A shaftment is the width of the fist and outstretched thumb. The lengths of poles, staves, etc. can be easily measured by grasping the bottom of the staff with thumb extended and repeating such hand over hand grips along the length of the staff. It occurs in Anglo-Saxon written records as early as 910 and in English as late as 1474. After the modern foot came into use in the twelfth century, the shaftment was reinterpreted as exactly 1/2 foot or 6"
"the hand: In the hand proper a total of 13 bones form part of the wrist: eight carpal bones—scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, and hamate— and five metacarpal bones—the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth metacarpal bones. The midcarpal joint is the S-shaped joint space separating the proximal and distal rows of carpal bones. The intercarpal joints, between the bones of each row, are strengthened by the radiate carpal and pisohamate ligaments and the palmar, interosseous, and dorsal intercarpal ligaments. Some degree of mobility is possible between the bones of the proximal row while the bones of the"
"source as ""indicate;"" its anatomical names are ""index finger"" and ""second digit"". The index finger has three phalanges. The index finger does not contain any muscles, but is controlled by muscles in the hand by attachments of tendons to the bones. A lone index finger held vertically is often used to represent the number 1 (but finger counting differs across cultures), or when held up or moved side to side (finger-wagging), it can be an admonitory gesture. With the hand held palm out and the thumb and middle fingers touching, it represents the letter ""d"" in the American Sign Language"
"Finger A finger is a limb of the human body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and found in the hands of humans and other primates. Normally humans have five digits, the bones of which are termed phalanges, on each hand, although some people have more or fewer than five due to congenital disorders such as polydactyly or oligodactyly, or accidental or medical amputations. The first digit is the thumb, followed by index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger or pinky. According to different definitions, the thumb can be called a finger, or not. The"
"of whether the three digits of the bird hand involved the same homologous loss of two digits as in the dinosaur hand. The human hand normally has five digits: four fingers plus one thumb; these are often referred to collectively as five fingers, however, whereby the thumb is included as one of the fingers. It has 27 bones, not including the sesamoid bone, the number of which varies between people, 14 of which are the phalanges (proximal, intermediate and distal) of the fingers and thumb. The metacarpal bones connect the fingers and the carpal bones of the wrist. Each human"
"Gaz. To interpret Gaz, depends on what you are measuring and where you are. Bengal: 36"", Bombay: 27"", Madras: 33"", Government Average: 33"". The hand measurements were used. Anguli (width of 3 fingers) = 1 Girah 8 Girah = 1 Hath (elbow to the end of the middle finger, approximately 18"" ) 5 5/6 Hath = One Kathi 20 Kathi = One Pand 20 Pand = One Begah 2 Hath = 1 Gaz 3 Gaz = Two Karam 3 Karams = 1 Kan 3 Square Kans = 1 Marla 20 Marlas = 1 Kanal 8 Kanals = 1 Ghamaon 9"
"Cun (unit) The cun (; ; ), often glossed as the ""Chinese inch"", is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, whereas the width of the two forefingers denotes 1.5 cun and the width of four fingers (except the thumb) side-by-side is three cuns. In this sense it continues to be used to chart acupuncture points on the human body in various uses of traditional Chinese medicine. The cun was part of a larger system, and represented one-tenth of a chi (""Chinese foot""). In time the lengths were"
"bears three digits, typical of the Maniraptora, which respectively bear two, three, and four phalanges. The authors take the view that the three digits represent the second, third and fourth, whereas most other researchers see them as the first, second and third. The overall length of the hand is , 140% of the upper arm and 95% of the thighbone. In the wrist, the semilunate carpal, a flat curved bone, is relatively small; the top surface is strongly convex and bears a unique transverse groove. Among the three metacarpal bones of the middle hand, the end of metacarpal ""IV"" (corresponding"
"wide. Ell An ell (from Proto-Germanic *""alinō"", cognate with Latin ""ulna"") is a unit of measurement, originally a cubit, i.e., approximating the length of a man's arm from the elbow ("""" literally meant the bend (""bow"") of the arm (""ell"")) to the tip of the middle finger, or about 18 inches (457 mm); in later usage, any of several longer units. In English-speaking countries, these included (until the 19th century) the Flemish ell ( of a yard), English ell ( yards) and French ell ( yards), some of which are thought to derive from a ""double ell"". An ell-wand or"
"same as or derived from the word for ""thumb"", as a man's thumb is about an inch wide (and this was even sometimes used to define the inch). Examples include ; (""inch"") and ' (""thumb""); (""thumb""); Danish and (""inch"") ' (""thumb""); ; ; ; ; (""inch"") and ' (""thumb""); (""thumb""); (""inch"") and ' (""thumb""); and (""inch"") and ""tumme"" (""thumb"") and Russian: дюйм (""duim""). The inch is a commonly used customary unit of length in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is also used in Japan for electronic parts, especially display screens. In most of continental Europe, the"
"the human hand include: There are five digits attached to the hand, notably with a nail fixed to the end in place of the normal claw. The four fingers can be folded over the palm which allows the grasping of objects. Each finger, starting with the one closest to the thumb, has a colloquial name to distinguish it from the others: The thumb (connected to the first metacarpal bone and trapezium) is located on one of the sides, parallel to the arm. A reliable way of identifying human hands is from the presence of opposable thumbs. Opposable thumbs are identified"
"The phalangeal formula of the hand (which describes the number of bones in each finger starting with finger I) is ?-3-4-5-3. Each finger ends in a curved claw. The metacarpal (hand bone) corresponding to finger I is characteristically wide. The illium is short and tapers towards the rear. The top edge of the pubis is large and rounded while the back edge is arched, creating a large thyroid fenestra between the pubis and ischium. The ischium is larger than the pubis and has a bony spur which could have connected to tail muscles. The femur is S-shaped but the finer"
"Ell An ell (from Proto-Germanic *""alinō"", cognate with Latin ""ulna"") is a unit of measurement, originally a cubit, i.e., approximating the length of a man's arm from the elbow ("""" literally meant the bend (""bow"") of the arm (""ell"")) to the tip of the middle finger, or about 18 inches (457 mm); in later usage, any of several longer units. In English-speaking countries, these included (until the 19th century) the Flemish ell ( of a yard), English ell ( yards) and French ell ( yards), some of which are thought to derive from a ""double ell"". An ell-wand or ellwand"
"Arm span Arm span or reach (sometimes referred to as wingspan, or spelled ""armspan"") is the physical measurement of the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90° angle. The arm span measurement is usually very close to the person's height. For example, a 5'6"" person will have an arm span of about 66"", plus or minus an inch or two. Age, sex, and ethnicity have to be taken into account to best predict height from arm span. Arm span is"
"stated in units of hands and inches: one hand is equal to . The height is expressed as the number of full hands, followed by a point, then the number of additional inches, and ending with the abbreviation ""h"" or ""hh"" (for ""hands high""). Thus, a horse described as ""15.2 h"" is 15 hands plus 2 inches, for a total of in height. The size of horses varies by breed, but also is influenced by nutrition. Light riding horses usually range in height from and can weigh from . Larger riding horses usually start at about and often are as"
"Hand geometry Hand geometry is a biometric that identifies users by the shape of their hands. Hand geometry readers measure a user's hand along many dimensions and compare those measurements to measurements stored in a file. Viable hand geometry devices have been manufactured since the early 1980s, making hand geometry the first biometric to find widespread computerized use. It remains popular; common applications include access control and time-and-attendance operations. Since hand geometry is not thought to be as unique as fingerprints, palm veins or irises, fingerprinting, palm veins and iris recognition remain the preferred technology for high-security applications. Hand geometry"
"of the index finger to the length of the ring finger in adults is affected by the level of exposure to male sex hormones of the embryo in utero. This digit ratio is below 1 for both sexes but it is lower in males than in females on average. A number of genetic disorders affect the hand. Polydactyly is the presence of more than the usual number of fingers. One of the disorders that can cause this is Catel-Manzke syndrome. The fingers may be fused in a disorder known as syndactyly. Or there may be an absence of one or"
"Hand A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each ""hand"" and fingerprints extremely similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having ""hands"" instead of paws on their front limbs. The raccoon is usually described as having ""hands"" though opposable thumbs are lacking. Some evolutionary anatomists use the term ""hand"" to refer to the appendage of digits on the forelimb more generally — for example, in the context"
"middle finger as it is stretched out to one side, then either plug the result into a formula to estimate height, or double the demi-span for the actual armspan measurement. Demi-span is used because measuring from fingertip to fingertip is difficult, requiring two people or markings on a wall. Arm span Arm span or reach (sometimes referred to as wingspan, or spelled ""armspan"") is the physical measurement of the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90° angle. The arm span"
"Finger (unit) A finger (sometimes fingerbreadth or finger's breadth) is any of several units of measurement that are approximately the width of an adult human finger, including: The digit, also known as digitus or digitus transversus (Latin), dactyl (Greek) or dactylus, or finger's breadth — of an inch or of a foot. In medicine and related disciplines (anatomy, radiology, etc.) the fingerbreadth (literally the width of a finger) is an informal but widely used unit of measure. In the measurement of distilled spirits, two fingers of whiskey refers to the amount of whiskey that would fill a glass to the"
"five fingers of the right-hand (which pluck the strings) are designated by the first letter of their Spanish names namely ""p"" = thumb (""pulgar""), ""i"" = index finger (""índice""), ""m"" = middle finger (""medio""), ""a"" = ring finger (), ""c"" = little finger or pinky (""chiquito""). The four fingers of the left hand (which stop the strings) are designated 1 = index, 2 = major, 3 = ring finger, 4 = little finger; 0 designates an open string, that is a string that is not stopped by a finger of the left hand and whose full length thus vibrates when"
"both the Greeks and the Romans subdivided the foot into 16 digits, but in later years, the Romans also subdivided the foot into 12 (from which both the English words ""inch"" and ""ounce"" are derived). After the fall of the Roman Empire, some Roman traditions were continued but others fell into disuse. In AD 790 Charlemagne attempted to reform the units of measure in his domains. His units of length were based on the and in particular the , the distance between the fingertips of the outstretched arms of a man. The has 6 (feet) each of 326.6 mm (12.86"
"the remaining intrinsic muscles of the hand. All muscles of the hand are innervated by the brachial plexus (C5–T1) and can be classified by innervation: The radial nerve supplies the skin on the back of the hand from the thumb to the ring finger and the dorsal aspects of the index, middle, and half ring fingers as far as the proximal interphalangeal joints. The median nerve supplies the palmar side of the thumb, index, middle, and half ring fingers. Dorsal branches innervates the distal phalanges of the index, middle, and half ring fingers. The ulnar nerve supplies the ulnar third"
"hand patterns. The 39 hand patterns can by classified into four ""hand types"": balanced hands, three-suiters, two suiters and single suiters. Below table gives the ""a priori"" likelihoods of being dealt a certain hand-type. Alternative grouping of the 39 hand patterns can be made either by longest suit or by shortest suit. Below tables gives the ""a priori"" chance of being dealt a hand with a longest or a shortest suit of given length. In total there are 53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000 (5.36 x 10) different deals possible, which is equal to formula_22. The immenseness of this number can be understood by answering"