The foot (standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is...
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The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. It is...
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The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. It equals the volume of a board that is...
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The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft2; also denoted by '2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric)...
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The foot–pound–second system (FPS system) is a system of units built on three fundamental units: the foot for length, the (avoirdupois) pound for either...
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The foot-pound force (symbol: ft⋅lbf, ft⋅lbf, or ft⋅lb ) is a unit of work or energy in the engineering and gravitational systems in United States customary...
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localities introduced their own variants. Some of Charlemagne's units, such as the king's foot (French: pied du Roi) remained virtually unchanged for about...
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The cubic foot (symbol ft3 or cu ft) is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States and the United Kingdom. It...
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A foot-candle (sometimes foot candle; abbreviated fc, lm/ft2, or sometimes ft-c) is a non-SI unit of illuminance or light intensity. The foot-candle is...
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One Foot or one foot may refer to: a single Foot (unit) Unipedalism, the condition of having only leg or one foot. "One Foot", a variation of an ollie...
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up foot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The foot is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. Foot or feet may also refer to: Foot (unit),...
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The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic...
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to the foot. The term "United States customary units" was used by the former United States National Bureau of Standards, although "English units" is sometimes...
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A pound-foot (lb⋅ft), abbreviated from pound-force foot (lbf · ft), is a unit of torque representing one pound of force acting at a perpendicular distance...
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to game, but a Hammer unit is usually defined as a sixteenth of a foot (16 Hammer units = 1 foot). This means that 1 Hammer unit is equal to exactly 19...
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container ships are 20-foot (1 TEU) and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO-standard shipping containers, with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent that...
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length of a man's foot; a unit of measure used widely and anciently. In this sense the plural is often foot. The current inch and foot are implied from...
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The acre-foot is a non-SI unit of volume equal to about 1,233 m3 commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such...
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Intermodal container (section 48-foot containers)
termed TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), reflecting the 20- or 40-foot dimensions. Invented in the early 20th century, 40-foot intermodal containers...
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spaces) Board foot, unit of lumber Cord, a unit of dry volume used to measure firewood and pulpwood Cubic yard, equal to 27 cu ft Faggot (unit) History of...
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Pound (force) (category Units of force)
lbf, sometimes lbf,) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system. Pound-force...
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definition, the link is exactly 66⁄100 of a US survey foot, or exactly 7.92 inches or 20.1168 cm. The unit is based on Gunter's chain, a metal chain 66 feet...
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Logistics Group, and the Musical Unit of the Spanish Royal Guard. The Royal Guard Honors Group is the principal foot guards unit of the Armed Forces, which...
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imperial cord enclosed 128 cu ft. Board foot Cubic ton Forest product Hoppus foot Imperial units List of unusual units of measurement Measurement Canada Measurement...
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and 580 ml (20 US fl oz). The core volume units are: amphora quadrantal (Roman jar) – one cubic pes (Roman foot) congius – a half-pes cube (thus 1⁄8 amphora...
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A foot-lambert or footlambert (fL, sometimes fl or ft-L) is a unit of luminance in United States customary units and some other unit systems. A foot-lambert...
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(Tongyong Pinyin chih) is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Although it is often translated as the "Chinese foot", its length was originally derived from...
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surveying land using a surveyor's chain 66 feet long with 100 links. The 66-foot unit, which was four perches or rods, took on the name the chain. By 1675 it...
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the Faroe Islands. FlyEgypt, an Egyptian airline (IATA code FT) Foot (unit) (ft.), a unit of distance or length Fellow in Thanatology (FT), the scientific...
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' (disambiguation) (section Units of measure)
(′), used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics, and music Foot (unit), a unit of length in the imperial...
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