Imperial
- UK Units of Length
| 1 inch ( in.
or " ) |
= |
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about the width
of a thumb |
= 25.4 mm |
| 12 inches ( ins.) |
= |
1 foot |
about the length
of a size 10 shoe |
= 305 mm |
| 3 feet ( ft.
) |
= |
1 yard |
about from nose
to stretched finger |
= 0.91 m |
| 1760 yards (yds) |
= |
1 mile ( m ) |
about 15 minutes
walking |
= 1.61 km |
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Less common units |
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| 25 links |
= |
1 rod |
for measuring
land |
= 5m |
| 4 rod or perch
|
= |
1 chain ( ch
) |
surveying; length
of a cricket pitch |
= 20m |
| 10 chains |
= |
1 furlong ( fg
) |
length of a furrow;
horse racing |
= 200m |
| 8 furlongs |
= |
1 mile ( m ) |
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= 1610m |
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Imperial
- UK units of Area
| 144 square inch
(sq.in) |
= |
1 sq.foot |
about a paper
napkin |
= 0.093 m2 |
| 9 square feet
( sq.ft) |
= |
1 sq.yard |
about the size
of a card table |
= 0.84 m2 |
| 4840 sq.yards
(sq.yds) |
= |
1 acre |
about a football
pitch |
= 4047 m2 |
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Less common units |
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| 30 1/4
sq.yds |
= |
1 pole (P) |
also called a
square pole |
= 25.3 m2 |
| 40 poles |
= |
1 rood (R) |
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= 1012 m2 |
| 4 roods |
= |
1 acre |
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= 0.4 hectare |
Imperial
- UK units of Mass or Weight
| 16 drams ( dr
) |
= |
1 ounce |
a tablespoon
of sugar |
= 28 grams |
| 16 ounces ( ozs.) |
= |
1 pound |
a bag of sugar |
= 0.45 kg |
| 14 pounds ( lbs) |
= |
1 stone |
used in body
weight |
= 6.35 kg |
| 2 stone |
= |
1 quarter |
less common unit |
= 12.7 kg |
| 4 quarters |
= |
1 hundredweight |
= 112 lb; bag
of cement. |
= 50.8 kg |
| 20 hundredweight
(cwt) |
= |
1 ton |
= 2240 lb.; about
14 men |
= 1.016 tonne |
Imperial
- UK units of Capacity
| 5 fluid ounces |
= |
1 gill |
|
= 142 ml |
| 20 fluid ounces |
= |
1 pint |
an english beer |
= 568 ml |
| 2 pints( pts.) |
= |
1 quart |
a german beer |
= 1.1 L |
| 4
quarts ( qrt ) |
= |
1
gallon |
a
large can of paint, maybe |
=
4.546 L |
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less common units |
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| 2 gallons ( gals
) |
= |
1 peck |
'pick a peck
of pickled pepper' |
= 9.1 L |
| 4 pecks |
= |
1 bushel |
= 8 gals; bulk
food measure |
= 36.4 L |
Note:- In
USA 16 fluid ounces = 1 pint = 0.473 litre and US gallon
= 3.785 litre
Imperial
- UK units of Volume
| 1728 cubic inches |
= |
1 cu.foot |
cu.in to cu.ft |
=
0.028 m3 |
| 27 cubic feet |
= |
1 cu.yard |
cu.yd. |
=
0.76 m3 |
Imperial
- UK units, coins and notes of Old Money, pre Feb 1971
| 2 farthings |
= |
1 halfpenny
|
pronounced
'hapepenny' |
= 0.208p |
| 4 farthings |
= |
1 penny ( d ) |
Latin - denarius |
= 0.417p |
| 3 pennies |
= |
1 threepenny
bit |
used to be 'silver',
then bronze |
= 1.25p |
| 6 pennies |
= |
1 sixpenny piece |
first coin in
nickel |
= 2.5p |
| 12 pennies |
= |
1 shilling (
s ) |
a bob as in 'bob a job' |
= 5p |
| 2
shillings |
= |
1
florin |
a
tenth of a pound = metric! |
=
10p |
| 2s - 6p |
= |
1 half crown |
biggest coin
in regular use |
= 12.5p |
| 10
shillings |
= |
1
ten 'bob' note |
first in paper
money |
=
50p |
| 20
shillings |
= |
1
pound note (quid) |
also £5
and £10 notes |
=
£1 |
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less common units |
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| 5 shillings |
= |
1 crown |
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= 25p |
| 21 shillings |
= |
1 guinea |
to buy horses |
= £1.05 |
| 4 pennies |
= |
1 groat |
13th centuary
coin |
= 1.7p |
£ s
d or L s d is a term for pounds, shillings and pence
Imperial
- UK - US and current metric units of Time
| 60
seconds ( secs, " ) |
= |
1
minute |
There
are proposals for decimalised time with a day devided into
10, 100, 1000, etc. |
| 60
minutes ( mins, ' ) |
= |
1
hour |
| 24
hours ( hrs ) |
= |
1
day |
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| 7
days ( d ) |
= |
1
week ( wk ) |
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| 28,
29, 30 or 31 days |
= |
1
month |
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| 12
months ( m ) |
= |
1
year |
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| 10
years ( y ) |
= |
1
decade |
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| 1000
years |
= |
1
millenium |
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