"was also for urban surveying and title deeds in the Transvaal. There were 144 square Cape feet in one Cape rood and 600 Cape roods (86,400 square Cape feet) in one morgen. Its use ceased when South Africa adopted the metric system in 1977, though it has not yet been entirely replaced in pre-existing title deeds. Cape foot A Cape foot is a unit of length defined as 1.0330 English feet (and equal to 12.396 English inches, or 0.31485557516 meters) found in documents of belts and diagrams relating to landed property. It was identically equal to the Rijnland voet and"
"usage of ""foot."" 1 square foot is equivalent to: 1 acre is equivalent to 43,560 square feet. Square foot The square foot (plural square feet; abbreviated sq. ft, sf, ft) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot. Although the pluralisation is regular in the noun form, when used as an adjective, the singular is preferred. So, a flat"
"Square foot The square foot (plural square feet; abbreviated sq. ft, sf, ft) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot. Although the pluralisation is regular in the noun form, when used as an adjective, the singular is preferred. So, a flat measuring 700 square feet could be described as a 700 square-foot flat. This corresponds to common linguistic"
"Cubic inch The cubic inch (symbol in) is a unit of measurement for volume in the Imperial units and United States customary units systems. It is the volume of a cube with each of its three dimensions (length, width, and depth) being one inch long. The cubic inch and the cubic foot are still used as units of volume in the United States, although the common SI units of volume, the liter, milliliter, and cubic meter, are also used, especially in manufacturing and high technology. One cubic inch is approximately 16.387 mL. One cubic foot is equal to exactly 1,728"
"Square mile The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi²) is an imperial and US unit of measure for an area equal to the area of a square with a side length of one statute mile. It should not be confused with ""miles square"", which refers to a square region with each side having the specified length. For instance, 20 miles square (20 × 20 miles) has an area equal to 400 square miles; a rectangle of 10 × 40 miles likewise has an area of 400 square miles, but it is not 20 miles square. One"
"square mile is equal to: Since one inch has been standardized to 2.54 cm by international agreement, a square mile is equivalent to the following metric measures: When applied to a portion of the earth's surface, ""square mile"" is an informal synonym for section. Romans derived measurements from marching. Five feet was equal to one pace (which is appropriately a double step). One thousand paces measured a Roman mile, which was somewhat smaller than the English statute mile. This Roman system was adopted, with local variations, throughout Europe as the Roman Empire spread. Total population in a square mile is"
"Pounds per square inch The pound per square inch or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch (symbol: lbf/in; abbreviation: psi) is a unit of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units. It is the pressure resulting from a force of one pound-force applied to an area of one square inch. In SI units, 1 psi is approximately equal to 6895 N/m. Pounds per square inch absolute (psia) is used to make it clear that the pressure is relative to a vacuum rather than the ambient atmospheric pressure. Since atmospheric pressure at sea level is around 14.7 psi, this will"
"In Quebec, the surveys in French units were converted using the relationship 1 ""pied"" (of the French variety; the same word is used for English feet as well) = 12.789 inches (of English origin). Thus a square arpent was 5299296.0804 in² or about 36,801 ft² or 0.8448 acre. There were many local variations; the metric conversions below apply to the Quebec and Paris definitions. Up to the introduction of the metric system, almost every town in Germany had their own definitions. It is said that by 1810, in Baden alone, there were 112 different ""Ellen"". Before 1541, there were no"
"Square metre The square metre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter (American spelling) is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m. Adding and subtracting SI prefixes creates multiples and submultiples; however, as the unit is exponentiated, the quantities grow geometrically by the corresponding power of 10. For example, a kilometre is 10 (a thousand) times the length of a metre, but a square kilometre is 10 (10, a million) times the area of a square metre, and a cubic kilometre is 10 (10, a billion) cubic metres. The square"
"square units that can be calculated as: 3 metres x 2 metres = 6 m. This is equivalent to 6 million square millimetres. Other useful conversions are: In non-metric units, the conversion between two square units is the square of the conversion between the corresponding length units. the relationship between square feet and square inches is where 144 = 12 = 12 × 12. Similarly: In addition, conversion factors include: There are several other common units for area. The are was the original unit of area in the metric system, with: Though the are has fallen out of use, the"
"less than one imperial quart or one US dry quart. A mnemonic for its volume relative to the imperial pint is ‘a litre of water is a pint and three quarters’. A litre is the volume of a cube with sides of 10 cm, which is slightly less than a cube of sides 4 inches (or one-third of a foot). One cubic foot would contain exactly 27 such cubes (four inches on each side), making one cubic foot approximately equal to 27 litres. One cubic foot has an exact volume of 28.316846592 litres, which is within 5% of the 27-litre"
"derived by dividing the total number of residents by the number of square miles of land area in the specified geographic area. The population per square kilometer is derived by multiplying the population per square mile by 0.3861. Land area measurements are originally recorded as whole square meters. Square meters are converted to square kilometers by dividing by 1,000,000; square kilometers are converted to square miles by dividing by 2.58999; square meters are converted to square miles by dividing by 2,589,988. Square mile The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi²) is an imperial and US unit"
"Cubic foot The cubic foot (symbol ft) is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, and partially in Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot (0.3048 m) in length. Its volume is 28.3168 liters or about of a cubic meter. At , a cubic foot of water weighs . The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot is ft. The following abbreviations are used: cubicfeet, cubicfoot, cubicft, cufeet, cufoot, cuft, cu.ft, cuft, cbft, cb.ft, cbft, cbf, feet, foot, ft, feet/-3, foot/-3, ft/-3."
"metres (m), square centimetres (cm), square millimetres (mm), square kilometres (km), square feet (ft), square yards (yd), square miles (mi), and so forth. Algebraically, these units can be thought of as the squares of the corresponding length units. The SI unit of area is the square metre, which is considered an SI derived unit. Calculation of the area of a square whose length and width are 1 metre would be: 1 metre x 1 metre = 1 m and so, a rectangle with different sides (say length of 3 metres and width of 2 metres) would have an area in"
"Square (unit) The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the construction industry in the United States and Canada, and was historically used in Australia. One square is equal to 100 square feet. Examples where the unit is used are roofing shingles, metal roofing, vinyl siding, and fibercement siding products. Some home builders use squares as a unit in floor plans to customers. When used in reference to material that is applied in an overlapped fashion, such as roof shingles or siding, a square refers to the amount of material needed to cover 100 square feet"
"and square feet, but for official government purposes the units are always hectares and square metres. Office space and industrial units are usually advertised in square feet. Steel pipe sizes are sold in increments of inches, while copper pipe is sold in increments of millimetres. Road bicycles have their frames measured in centimetres, while off-road bicycles have their frames measured in inches. The size (diagonal) of television and computer monitor screens is always denominated in inches. Food sold by length or width e.g. pizzas or sandwiches, is generally sold in inches. Clothing is always sized in inches, with the metric"
"unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape; any area of 43,560 square feet is an acre. In the international yard and pound agreement of 1959 the United States and five countries of the Commonwealth of Nations defined the international yard to be exactly 0.9144 metres. By inference, an ""international acre"" may be declared as exactly square metres but it does not have a basis in any international agreement. Both the international acre and the US survey acre contain of a square mile or 4,840 square yards, but alternative definitions of a yard are used (see survey foot and"
"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"
"Square kilometre Square kilometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square kilometer (American spelling), symbol km, is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. 1 km is equal to: It is also approximately equal to: Conversely: The symbol ""km"" means (km), square kilometre or kilometre squared and not k(m), kilo–square metre. For example, 3 km is equal to = 3,000,000 m, not 3,000 m. Topographical map grids are worked out in metres, with the grid lines being 1,000 metres apart. In each case, the grid lines"
"15 old feet to 16 new feet.) In 1324 Edward II systematized units of length by defining the inch as 3 barleycorns, the foot as 12 inches, the yard as 3 feet, the perch as 5 yards, and the acre as an area 4 by 40 perches. Apart from the ell (45 inches or 114.3 cm, which continued to be used in the cloth trade) and the chain (introduced by Edmund Gunter in 1620, and used in land surveying), these units formed the basis of the units of length of the English system of measurement. The units were however redefined"
"volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit () and 14.7 pounds per square inch (PSI) () of pressure. See Also: Standard cubic foot per minute Cubic foot The cubic foot (symbol ft) is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, and partially in Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot (0.3048 m) in length. Its volume is 28.3168 liters or about of a cubic meter. At , a cubic foot of water weighs . The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot is ft."
"feet 4 inches is sometimes denoted as 2′−4″, 2′ 4″ or 2′4″. (See 'minute' for another case where prime and double prime symbols are used to denote first and second cuts in refining measurement.) In the United States, the foot was defined as 12 inches, with the inch being defined by the Mendenhall Order of 1893 by 39.37 inches = 1 m. In Imperial units, the foot was defined as yard, with the yard being realized as a physical standard (separate from the standard meter). The yard standards of the different Commonwealth countries were periodically compared with one another. The"
"Square foot gardening Square foot gardening is the practice of dividing the growing area into small square sections (typically 12"" on a side, hence the name). The aim is to assist the planning and creating of a small but intensively planted vegetable garden. It results in a simple and orderly gardening system, from which it draws much of its appeal. Mel Bartholomew coined the term ""square foot gardening"" in his 1981 book of the same name. The phrase ""square foot gardening"" was popularized by Mel Bartholomew in a 1981 Rodale Press book and subsequent PBS television series. Bartholomew a retired"
"one square kilometre in area. Here are some examples: Using the figures published by golf course architects Crafter and Mogford, a course should have a fairway width of 120 metres and 40 metres clear beyond the hole. Assuming a 18-hole course, an area of 80 hectares (0.8 square kilometre) needs to be allocated for the course itself. Examples of golf courses that are about one square kilometre include: Square kilometre Square kilometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square kilometer (American spelling), symbol km, is a multiple of the square metre, the SI"
"foot, and eighteen have not specified the conversion factor from metric units. The most widely used area unit with a name unrelated to any length unit is the acre. The National Institute of Standards and Technology contends that customary area units are defined in terms of the square survey foot, not the square international foot. Conversion factors are based on Astin (July 27, 1968) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (2008). The cubic inch, cubic foot and cubic yard are commonly used for measuring volume. In addition, there is one group of units for measuring volumes of liquids, and"
"be directly compared to the internal floor area. Residential buildings in the state of Victoria, Australia are sometimes still advertised in squares. 1 square equals Square (unit) The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the construction industry in the United States and Canada, and was historically used in Australia. One square is equal to 100 square feet. Examples where the unit is used are roofing shingles, metal roofing, vinyl siding, and fibercement siding products. Some home builders use squares as a unit in floor plans to customers. When used in reference to material that is"
"of paper. Sometimes, ink suppliers will give a recommended transfer weight per square meter, expressed in g/m². In which case you need to know the ink density before converting g/m² to cm³/m². The American standard for transfer volume is BCM / in² also written BCM/sq in or BCM, which means billion cubic microns per square inch. Cubic microns (μm³) is a unit of volume and one billion cubic micron (1 000 000 000 μm³) is equal to 0.001 cm³, also we know that one square meter is equal to 1550 square inch. So 1 BCM/in² = 1.55 cm³/m² Line count"
"The most commonly used units are the mile or ""li"" (), the yard or ""ma"" (), the foot or ""chek"" (), and the inch or ""tsun"" (). The traditional measure of flat area is the square foot () of the imperial system, which is still in common use for real estate purposes. The measurement of agricultural plots and fields, however, is traditionally conducted in (mau) of the Chinese system. For the measurement of volume, Hong Kong officially uses the metric system, though the gallon (, ka-lun) is also occasionally used. During the 1970s, the metric system and SI units were"
"maps at 1:50000 scale. Personally seen on the Punjab but assumed to be used in the whole of India. ""Conversion"" 1 Inch = Span of 6 Barley corns side by side by thickness, although barleycorns are not a reliable standard of measurement.<br> 1 Inch = 2.54 centimetres<br> 1 Foot = 30.48 cm<br> 1 Yard = 0.914 metre<br> 1 Mile = 1.61 Kilometre 1 coss= 2000 yards Indian units of measurement Before the introduction of the Metric system, one may divide the history of Indian systems of measurement into three main periods: the pre-Akbar's period, the period of the Akbar system,"
"Foot (unit) The foot ( feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. Since 1959, both units have been defined by international agreement as equivalent to 0.3048 meters exactly. In both systems, the foot comprises 12 inches and three feet compose a yard. Historically the ""foot"" was a part of many local systems of units, including the Greek, Roman, Chinese, French, and English systems. It varied in length from country to country, from city to city, and sometimes from trade to trade. Its length was usually"
"drawing with a scale of ""one-inch-to-the-foot"" is equivalent to one foot in the real world (a scale of 1:12) whereas one inch measured from a drawing with a scale of ""two-inches-to-the-foot"" is equivalent to six inches in the real world (a scale of 1:6). It is not to be confused with a true unitless ratio. A 1:5 architectural scale (inches to feet) would be a 1:60 unitless scale (inches to inches) since there are 60 inches in 5 feet. Typical scales used in the United States are: The following scales are generally grouped in pairs using the same dual-numbered index"
"survey yard), so the exact size of an acre depends upon which yard it is based. The US survey acre is about square metres; its exact value ( m) is based on an inch defined by 1 metre = 39.37 inches exactly, as established by the Mendenhall Order. Surveyors in the United States use both international and survey feet, and consequently, both varieties of acre. Since the difference between the US survey acre and international acre is only about a quarter of the size of an A4 sheet of paper (0.016 square metres, 160 square centimetres or 24.8 square inches),"
"the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was forty rods, an acre four by 40 rods, or four rods by one furlong, and thus 160 square rods. At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 percent longer than the foot of today. When England changed to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and"