About the unit of length other uses of metre or meter meter disambiguation Unit of length m 1 accuracy 4 The metre meter in the US , symbol m , is the Fundamental unit base unit of length in the International ... 1. ref History Main History of the metre Name The first recorded proposal for a decimal based unit ... catholic i.e. universal metre , which was derived from the Greek lang grc wikt wikt ... unit of length. One approach followed Wilkins in defining the metre as the length of a pendulum ... defining the metre as one ten millionth of the length of the Earth s meridian geography meridian ... of a pendulum. To establish a universally accepted foundation for the definition of the metre ... as its official unit of length a metre based on provisional results from the expedition. Although it was later determined that the first prototype metre bar was short by a fifth of a millimetre because ... Humerfelt2010 Humerfelt 2010 ref Prototype metre bar Image Platinum Iridium meter bar.jpg right thumb 220px Historical International Prototype Meter International Prototype Metre bar, made of an alloy ... precision, a series of international conferences was held to devise new metric standards. The Metre ... , France. This new organisation would preserve the new prototype metre and kilogram standards when ... the International Prototype Meter International Prototype Metre as the distance between two lines ... context of the SI Unit of length meter ref The original international prototype of the metre ... metre bar and the errors encountered in making the measurements is found in a National Institute ... wavelength of krypton 86 emission In 1893, the standard metre was first measured with an interferometer ... use at the BIPM. However, the International Prototype Metre remained the standard until 1960, when the eleventh General Conference on Weights and Measures CGPM defined the metre in the new ... in 1983 replaced the definition of the metre with its current definition, thus fixing the length of the metre ... more details
The Square may refer to The Square, Bournemouth , a public square The Square, Tallaght , a shopping centre in Dublin The Square, Harlow , a small music venue in England. Harvard Square , Cambridge, Massachusetts, locally known as The Square The Square 1994 film The Square 1994 film , a Chinese documentary The Square , a 2007 Belorussian documentary, released on DVD as Kalinovski Square film Kalinovski Square The Square 2008 film The Square 2008 film , an Australian film The Squares , an English band that formed in 1985 T Square band , formerly known as The Square See also Town square Disambig es plaza ... more details
wiktionarypar square TOCright Square or squares may refer to Mathematics and science Square cipher , a cryptographic block cipher Square geometry , a regular quadrilateral with four equal sides and four right angles Square number , an integer that is the square of another integer Construction Square area , an Imperial unit of floor area and other construction materials Square, a public meeting place Town square , an open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town used for community gatherings Market square , an open area where market stalls are traditionally set out for trading Garden square , an open space with buildings surrounding a garden Square, a L or T shaped tool Combination square , a tool with a ruled blade and one or more interchangeable heads Machinist square , a metalworking tool used to produce right angles Steel square , also called a framing or carpenter s square, produces right angles Try square , a woodworking tool for checking right angles Square, or quadrature ... and Evaluation SQuaRESQuaRE Software engineering a standard for Software product QUAlity Requirements and Evaluation. Entertainment Square album Square album , an album by Buck 65 Square band , a musical ... Companies Square company , former video game company that merged with Enix to become Square Enix Square conglomerate , a Bangladeshi conglomerate of textiles, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, consumer products companies Square application , a service and device that allows credit card payments to be accepted through mobile devices Square characters and boxes Square character , a written character ... Chinese character Kangxi radical Other Infantry square , a military tactic used by infantry when threatened by cavalry Square astrological aspect , an aspect of 90 degrees Square dessert , a dessert bar with the texture of a firm cake but softer than a cookie Square sailing , to adjust the position of the yardarms on a square rigged vessel to a 90 degree angle with the keel Square slang , several ... more details
other uses T square disambiguation File T Square.jpg thumb T square File T square.jpg thumb An old T square. A T square is a technical plan drawing drawing Measuring instrument instrument used by technical drawing draftsmen primarily as a guide for drawing horizontal lines on a drafting table . It may also guide a set square to draw vertical or diagonal lines. Its name comes from the general shape of the instrument where the horizontal member of the T slides on the side of the drafting table. T squares come in varying sizes, common lengths being 18 inch , 24 , 30 , 36 and 42 . Citation needed date September 2010 T squares are also used to measure and cut drywall . Drywall T squares are typically made of aluminium and have a 48 inch 1,220 mm long tongue . Higher end table saw s are often equipped with T square fence woodworking fence s. These table saw fences are attached to a rail only on the front side of the table unlike traditional fences which clamp to both the front and the rear of the table. The top of the T square hangs off of the drafting table and is called the head the blade is the part that stays on the drafting table. The T square usually has a transparency and translucency transparent edge made of plastic which should be free of nicks and cracks in order to provide smooth, straight lines. See also Technical drawing tools DEFAULTSORT T Square Category Technical drawing ja T pl Przyk adnica pt R gua T ru th zh yue T zh ... more details
Refimprove date April 2009 Infobox company name A Square logo type Privately held company Private genre fate predecessor successor foundation founder defunct location city Chamberlain, South Dakota location country United States U.S. location locations area served Worldwide key people industry firearms products Firearm s, Ammunition , Projectile s services market cap revenue operating income net income aum assets equity owner num employees parent divisions subsid homepage http a squareco.com a squareco.com footnotes intl yes A SQUARE COMPANY, LLC is a manufacturer of rifle s, ammunition and bullet s based in Chamberlain, South Dakota in the United States . The company is one of 19 that are members of the SAAMI Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer s Institution . ref http a squareco.com SAAMI.html SAAMI Membership, company website, accessed 28th April 2009 ref ref http www.saami.org membership Member Companies.cfm SAAMI Member Companies Website, accessed 28th April 2009 ref The company s focus is on its firearms for hunting large dangerous game. This is reflected in the selection of larger caliber chamberings in the company s rifles. A Square manufactured rifles usually come with stainless steel barrels as a standard feature. Citation needed date April 2009 The barrels on the rifles use epoxy resin to bed the barrel to the stocks. Citation needed date April 2009 Magazine boxes are manufactured from plate steel for rigidity and are also welded to the receiver. Citation needed date April 2009 A Square rifles are also engineered to allow the firing pin to retract further into the bolt ... on the cartridge within the chamber. Available calibres for A Square firearms range from those designed ... calibre rifles .243 Win . A Square also holds the patent for the Monolithic Solid Bullet. ref US patent 4811666 ref References reflist External links http a squareco.com A Square Company Homepage http www.accuratereloading.com 577tyr.html Big Game Hunting with the A Square Hannibal model, in .577 ... more details
Infobox Film name Be There or Be Square image image size caption director Feng Xiaogang producer Yang Hongguang writer Gu Xiaoyang br Feng Xiaogang starring Ge You br Xu Fan music San Bao cinematography Zhao Fei editing Zhou Ying distributor released 1998 country Film China runtime 103 min language Mandarin Chinese Mandarin , English language English budget preceded by followed by jianti fanti pinyin B ji n b s n Be There or Be Square zh s t p B ji n b s n is a 1998 Chinese cinema Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Feng Xiaogang , produced by Forbidden City Film , Beijing Film Studio , Zhongji Modern Commercial and Sleiman Tyrol Films . It is a Feng Xiaogang hesui pian New Year celebratory film , screened during the 1999 Chinese New Year to boost box office takings. Ge You and Xu Fan star as Beijing natives working in Los Angeles , whose paths constantly cross in a foreign city. They attempt to balance work with friendship love in spite of mounting disasters each time they meet. Plot Freelancer Liu Yuan Ge You is a carefree Beijing native eking out a living in Los Angeles , working as an occasional film extra and part time insurance agent . While helping a Beijing film crew scout for a suburb mansion, he encounters Li Qing Xu Fan , a former acquaintance house sitting for her friends. Liu convinces Li Qing she lack the requisite skills to survive in an United States of America American city, and buys her an Airline ticket air ticket to fly back to Beijing. The two part at the airport, expecting never to meet again. The couple meet a year later again in L.A. Li did not leave L.A. instead, she now rents a cheap apartment , working as a cleaner. Still his former carefree self living in a travel trailer , Liu has turned to selling cemetery spaces. Their relationship ... title Be There or Be Square Amg movie 180068 Be There or Be Square http www.dianying.com en title bjb1998 Be There or Be Square at the Chinese Movie Database Feng Xiaogang CinemaofChina Category ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 The square yard is an Imperial unit imperial U.S. customary unit US customary non metric system metric unit of area , formerly used in most of the English language English speaking world but now generally replaced by the squaremetre outside of the U.S., Canada and the U.K. It is defined as the area of a square geometry square with sides of one yard three Foot length feet , thirty six inch es, 0.9144 metre s in length . Gaj in Hindi Symbols There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd, sq.yd. yards 2, yard 2, yds 2, yd 2 yards 2, yard 2, yds 2, yd 2 yards , yard , yds , yd Conversions One square yard is equivalent to 1,296 square inch es Nine square foot square feet 0.00020661157 acre s 0.000000322830579 square mile s 836 127.36 square millimetres 8 361.2736 square centimetre s 0.83612736 squaremetre s 0.00000083612736 See also 1 E 1 m for a comparison with other areas Cubic yard Orders of magnitude area Conversion of units Area geometry Square algebra , Square root DEFAULTSORT Square Yard Category Units of area Category Imperial units Category Customary units in the United States ast Yarda cuadrada ca Iarda quadrada de Square yard es Yarda cuadrada fa mk pt Jarda quadrada ru simple Square yard zh ... more details
Other uses Square disambiguation Unreferenced date December 2009 A square inch plural square inches is a Units of measurement unit of area , equal to the area of a Square geometry square with sides of one inch . The following symbols are used to denote square inches square in sq inches, sq inch, sq in inches 2, inch 2, in 2 inches 2, inch 2, in 2 inches , inch , in or in some cases 2 The square inch is a common unit of measurement in the United States and the United Kingdom . Equivalence with other units of area 1 square inch assuming an international inch is equal to the overbars indicate repeating decimal s Nowrap 0.006 9 Overbar 4 square feet 1 square foot is equal to 144 square inches Nowrap 0.000 7 Overbar 71 604 9382 square yard s 1 square yard is equal to 1,296 square inches Nowrap 6.4516 square centimetre s 1 square centimetre is equal to Nowrap 0.155 000 310&hellip square inches Nowrap 0.000 645 16 squaremetre s 1 squaremetre is equal to Nowrap 1,550.003 100&hellip square inches DEFAULTSORT Square Inch Category Units of area Category Imperial units Category Customary units in the United States ca Polzada quadrada de Quadratzoll es Pulgada cuadrada fa ko it Pollice quadro hu N gyzeth velyk mk ja pt Polegada quadrada zh ... more details
The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the United States construction industry, ref http www.p1m.com um.htm Unit of Measurement Bot generated title ref and was historically used in Australia . One square is equal to 100 Square foot 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. Buildings in Australia no longer use the square as a unit of measure, and has been replaced by squaremetre s. The measurement was often used by estate agents to make the building sound larger as the measure includes the areas outside under the eaves, and so cannot be directly compared to the internal floor area. Fact date April 2008 Residential Buildings in the state of Victoria Australia are commonly advertised in squares. Conversions 1 square equals 100 square feet approximately 9.29 square meters 1 square equals 100 square meter References Reflist Category Australian architecture Category Units of area ... more details
The square foot plural square feet abbreviated ft or sq ft is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit non SI non metric system metric of area , used mainly in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong Citation needed date August 2010 , Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan Citation needed date August 2010 . It is defined as the area of a Square geometry square with sides of 1 foot length foot 0.333... yard s, 12 inch es, or 0.3048 metre s in length . For comparison, the average new one family house in the United States in 2007 had a total floor area of approximately 2500 square feet. ref http www.census.gov const C25Ann sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf Median and Average Square Feet of Floor Area in New Single Family Houses Completed by Location ref A symbol for square foot, square feet, and per square foot commonly used in architecture , real estate and interior space plans is a simple square with a vertical line bisecting it. It is also occasionally written as a square with a slash through it. Conversions 1 square foot is equivalent to A tile 12 inches by 12 inches has a square foot area of 1 square foot. 12 inches is equal to 1 foot. 144 square inch es Sq In 1 9 square yard s Sq Yd 0.01 Square building area squares . A square is a unit used in roofing to measure the area of a roof and is also a unit used in Australia before metrication and since to measure the floor area of a house. 1 square 100 sq ft 0.00002295684 acre s 92903.04 square millimetre s symbol mm 929.0304 square centimetre s symbol cm 0.09290304 squaremetre s symbol m 0.00000009290304 square kilometre s symbol km References Reflist See also 1 E 1 m for a comparison with other areas Cubic foot Orders of magnitude area Conversion of units Area geometry Square algebra , square root ... the square foot symbol Hong Kong Property Site named http www.squarefoot.com.hk squarefoot DEFAULTSORT Square Foot Category Units of area Category Imperial units Category Customary units in the United ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A square mil is a Units of measurement unit of area , equal to the area of a square with sides of length one Thou unit of length mil . A mil is one thousandth of an international inch . This unit of area is usually used in Area of a circle specifying the area of the cross section of a wire or cable. Equivalence to other units of area 1 square mil is equal to 1 millionth of a square inch 1 square inch is equal to 1 million square mils 6.4516 E 10 squaremetre s about 1.273 circular mil s 1 circular mil is equal to about 0.7854 square mils Square Mils 4 Circular Mils AWG Square Mil Formula The formula to calculate the Square Mil for any given AWG American Wire Gauge size is as follows. A sub n sub represents the Square Mil Area for the AWG size n . math A n pi times frac 5 times 92 frac 36 n 39 2 2 2 math which is essentially a r sup 2 sup formula where we divide the mils diameter by 2 to obtain the radius r or math A n frac pi 4 times 5 times 92 frac 36 n 39 2 math or math A n frac pi times 5 times 92 frac 36 n 39 2 4 math For example, a number 12 gauge wire would use n 12 and the calculated result would be 5128.608215 Square Mils Sizes with multiple zeros are successively larger than the Number 0 gauge size and can be denoted using number of zeros 0 for example 4 0 for the number 0000 gauge. For an m 0 AWG wire size, use n m 1 1 m in the above formula. For example, the number 0000 gauge or 4 0 gauge, would use n 3 and the calculated result would be 166190.2514 Square Mils See also Mil unit of length Circular mil Area of a circle DEFAULTSORT Square Mil Category Units of area Category Decimalisation ... more details
Long Metre , abbreviated L.M. or LM , is a Metre poetry poetic metre consisting of four line stanzas , or quatrains , in Iamb foot iambic tetrameter with alternate rhyme pattern a b a b . It is similar to Common Metre , which consists of four lines in alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter . History Poets have utilized Long Metre for over a millennium the hymn Te lucis ante terminum is known from a hymnary of the eighth or early ninth century, and might be even older than that hymnary. The same meter is also found in more recent works Psalm 100, All People That on Earth Do Dwell , is sometimes sung to an arrangement of the calypso music calypso tune used in Jamaica Farewell , and the song, Hernando s Hideaway , ref http www.lyrics house.com ella fitzgerald hernandos hideaway 16 lyrics ref from The Pajama Game , is also largely in Long Metre. See also Foot prosody Hymn tune Metre hymn Metre poetry References references Category Poetic rhythm ... more details
Other uses The square mile abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi sup 2 sup ref name RussRowlett Rowlett, Russ September 1, 2004 . http www.unc.edu rowlett units dictS.html S , How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved February 22, 2012. ref is an Imperial system imperial and US customary system US unit of measure for an area equal to the area of a square geometry square of one mile statute mile . ref Name Davies cite book title Mathematical dictionary and cyclopedia of mathematical science last Davies first Charles authorlink coauthors year 1872 publisher A.S. Barnes and co location Original from Harvard University isbn page 582 url http books.google.com books?id DoUMAAAAYAAJ ref It should not be confused with miles square , which refers to the number of miles on each side squared. For instance, 20 miles square 20 20 miles is equal to 400 square miles. One square mile is equivalent to 4,014,489,600 square inch es ref name Cardarelli2003 cite book author Fran ois Cardarelli title Encyclopaedia of scientific units, weights, and measures their SI equivalences and origins url http books.google.com books?id GV1aV7V7I00C&pg SA3 PA39 accessdate 22 February 2012 year 2003 publisher Springer isbn 978 1 85233 682 0 page 3 ref 27,878,400 square foot square feet ref name Cardarelli2003 3,097,600 square yard s ref name Cardarelli2003 ... American Philosophical Society isbn 978 0 87169 168 2 page 353 ref 25,899,881,103.36 square centimetre s 2,589,988.110336 squaremetre s 2.589988110336 square kilometre s When applied to a portion of the earth s surface, which is curved rather than flat, square mile is an informal synonym for Section ...?convert squaremiles to acres Formula Conversion, Square miles to numerous area units with algebraic steps and unit cancellation shown DEFAULTSORT Square Mile Category Units of area ... ro Mil p trat ru simple Square mile su Mil pasagi tl Milyang parisukat ta ... more details
Common metre or Common measure , ref Blackstone, Bernard., Practical English Prosody A Handbook for Students , London Longmans, 1965. 97 8 ref abbreviated C. M. or CM , is a Metre poetry poetic metre consisting ... by a stressed syllable , rhyming in the pattern a b a b . The metre is denoted by the syllable count ... anthem of Australia . Variants A variant of the common metre is the ballad metre , which was used in ballads . Like common metre, it has stanzas of four iambic lines. The difference is that ballad metre is less regular and more conversational ref name britannica cite web url http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 128504 common metre work Britannica Online Encyclopedia title common metre accessdate 2008 07 30 ref than common metre, and does not necessarily rhyme both sets of lines. Only the second and fourth lines must rhyme in ballad metre, in the pattern x a x a . Another closely related ... Press, 1999. 121 2, 414 5 ref The first and third lines in common metre typically have four stresses ... Jones U ref Ballad metre sometimes follows this stress pattern less strictly than common metre. ref ... of a fixed pattern iambs and line breaks. Another common adaptation of the Common Metre is the Common Metre Double, which as it sounds, is the Common Meter repeated twice in each stanza, or 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 ... d , but it often uses the ballad metre style, resulting in x a x a x b x b . Examples of this variant ... metre is often used in hymn s, like this one by John Newton . see Meter hymn Amazing Grace, how sweet .... from John Newton s Amazing Grace William Wordsworth s Lucy Poems are also in common metre. A slumber ... use ballad metre. Because I could not stop for Death , He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. from Emily Dickinson s poem 712 A modern example of ballad metre ... ballad metre is metrically less strict than common metre . Just sit right back and you ll hear a tale ... scheme for the first iteration, and a Ballad Metre scheme for the second. O beautiful for spacious ... more details
Dactylic metre is any Meter poetry meter primarily composed of Dactyl poetry dactyls long short short, or stressed unstressed unstressed . It may refer to Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter dab ... more details
Square kilometer , symbol km sup 2 sup , is a decimal multiple of the SI Units of measurement unit of surface area , the squaremetre , one of the SI derived unit s. 1 km sup 2 sup is equal to 1,000,000 metre m sup 2 sup 100 ha hectare 0.386302 square mile s 247.105381 acre s Conversely 1 m sup 2 sup 0.000001 10 sup 6 sup km sup 2 sup 1 hectare 0.01 10 sup 2 sup km sup 2 sup 1 square mile gaps 2.58998811 km sup 2 sup 1 acre gaps 0.004047 km sup 2 sup , gaps 0.404 7 ha or 4047 m sup 2 sup 2.47 acres ha Note km sup 2 sup means km sup 2 sup , square kilometre or kilometre squared and not k m sup 2 sup , kilo squaremetre. For example, 3 km sup 2 sup is equal to gaps 3 1,000 m sup 2 sup 3,000,000 m sup 2 sup , not 3,000 m sup 2 sup . See also Conversion of units SI prefix for the precise meaning of the prefix k Square Kilometre Array , a proposed radio telescope in South Africa or Australia , which is intended to have a collecting area of approximately 1 km sup 2 sup Category Units of area Category SI derived units standard stub af Vierkante kilometer als Quadratkilometer ar an Kilometro quadrato ast Quil metru cuadr u az Kvadrat kilometr bn zh min nan P ng hong kong l ba be be x old bg bs Kvadratni kilometar cs Kilometr tvere n cy Cilometr sgw r da Kvadratkilometer de Quadratmeter Quadratkilometer dv dsb Kwadratny kilometer et Ruutkilomeeter el es Kil metro cuadrado eo Kvadrata kilometro ext Quil metru quairau eu Kilometro koadro fa fr Kilom tre carr fy Kante kilometer gv Kilomeadar kerrinagh gl Quil metro cadrado hak Ph n f ng K ng l ko hy hi hsb Kwadratny kilometer hr etvorni kilometar id Kilometer persegi ia Kilometro quadrate is Ferk l metri it Chilometro quadrato he jv Kilom ter pesagi ka kk sw Kilomita ... more details
nofootnotes date January 2009 The International Six Metre Class is a class of racing yachts . Six Metre boats often called 6mR are a construction class , meaning that the boats are not identical but are all designed to meet specific measurement formula, in this case International Rule sailing International Rule . At their heyday, Sixes were the most important international yacht racing class, and they are still actively raced around the world. Six metre in class name does not, somewhat confusingly ... Olympics 6 metre class at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm File 1912 Nurdug II.JPG thumb Danish Nurdug II . Silver medalist Sailing at the 1912 Summer Olympics 6 metre class at the 1912 Summer ... boats which were fast but lightly constructed and impractical. Six Metre class was the smallest rating ... age of the Metre Rule boats and Sixes were most popular class, attracting top sailors and designers ... Robertson and Sons Ltd Yachtbuilders produced a total of five 6 Metre yachts between 1921 and 1953. In 1937 their young naval architect David Boyd designed the sleek 6 Metre racing yacht Circe , which .... Already in 1929, 5 metre keelboat 5 Metre class was established as a cheaper and smaller alternative for Sixes, but the final blow was creation of 5.5 Metre International 5.5 metre class in 1949. 5.5 ... be raced together. The 6 Metre Class is one of the potential Vintage Yachting Classes for the 2012 ... Sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics 6 metre class Sailing at the 1912 Summer Olympics 6 metre class References Reflist External links http www.6metre.ch International Six Metre Association http www.6mr.org.uk wiki index.php?title Boat Index Metre Boat Index http www.theyachtingstudio.com acatalog Online Catalogue DVDs Books 101.html Book The Six Metre 100 Years of Racing, published on the centenary ... Federation 6 Metre Category Keelboats Category Olympic sailboat classes fr 6 Metre is 6 mR it 6 metri nl 6 Metre fi 6mR sv R 6 ... more details
Bank Square may refer to several places Poland Bank Square, Warsaw United Kingdom Bank Square Aberystwyth Bank Square , Aberystwyth Bank Square Dulverton Bank Square , Dulverton, Somerset Bank Square St Just Bank Square , St Just in Penwith Bank Square Wilmslow Bank Square , Wilmslow disambig ... more details
in triple metre tend to be more lyrical and less martial than those in duple meter. For example, the United Kingdom British national anthem, God Save the Queen , is in triple metre this is highly ... of the work, giving these movements a more reflective feel. Triple metre in song There are many classical songs in triple metre. Bist du bei mir , from Johann Sebastian Bach Bach s Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach but the melody originally by Gottfried Heinrich St lzel St lzel is in triple metre Johann ... written in the 16th Century , and Amazing Grace . Examples of Triple metre in contemporary pop music In contemporary pop genres Soul, Rap, R&B, Rock triple metre is much less common but examples do exist. The Beatles provide three examples entirely or in part triple metre, She s Leaving Home , the verses ... metre in contemporary pop is the 1992 Toad the Wet Sprocket single, Walk on the Ocean . Notice these examples ... more details
A newton metre is a Physical unit unit of torque also called moment physics moment in the International System of Units SI system. The symbolic form is Nm or N m , ref http www.bipm.org en si si brochure chapter5 5 1.html BIPM unit symbols ref and sometimes hyphenated newton metre . One newton metre is equal to the torque resulting from a force of one newton unit newton applied perpendicularly to a moment arm which is one metre long. It is also used less commonly as a unit of work physics work , or energy , in which case it is equivalent to the more common and standard SI unit of energy, the joule . ref name Eshbach For example Eshbach s handbook of engineering fundamentals 10.4 Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer In SI units the basic unit of energy is Newton Meter . ref In this very different usage the metre term represents the distance travelled or displacement Dot product Physics in the direction of the force, and not the Cross product Mechanics perpendicular distance from a fulcrum as it does when used to express torque. This usage is discouraged by the BIPM SI authority , since it can lead to confusion as to whether a given quantity expressed in newton metres is a torque or a quantity of energy. ref http www.bipm.org en si si brochure chapter2 2 2 2 2 2.html BIPM special names ref Conversion factors 1 newton metre 0.7375621 pound foot torque pound foot often foot pound 1 kilogram force metre 9.80665 Nm ref http books.google.com books?id hAFRfIZMzrwC&pg PA6 Mechanical Engineering Formulas Pocket Guide , p6 ref ref http books.google.com books?id 0g9QjxsbqmUC&pg PA621 Concise encyclopedia of plastics , by Donald V. Rosato, Marlene G. Rosato, Dominick V. Rosato, p621 ref 1 pound foot torque pound foot often foot pound 1 pound force foot 1.3558 Nm 1 inch ounce force 7.0615518 mNm 1 dyne centimetre 10 sup 7 sup Nm See also Spring scale Torque tester References ... ru simple Newton metre sk Newton meter fi Newtonmetri sv Newtonmeter vls Newtonmeter ... more details
ry meter is a Meter poetry meter used in Sanskrit and Prakrit verses. A verse in ry metre is in four metrical feet called p da s. Unlike the majority of meters employed in classical Sanskrit, the ry meter is based on the number of m tr s morae per p da . A syllable containing a short vowel counts for one m tr , and a syllable containing a long vowel or a short vowel followed by two consonants counts for two m tr s. It is believed that arya meter was taken from the gatha meter of Prakrit. ref cite book last Garg first Ganga Ram coauthors title Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World publisher Concept Publishing Company date 1992 location isbn 8170223733 p. 653 ref Arya metre is common in Jain Prakrit texts and hence considered as favourite metre of early authors of Jainism . The earlier form of the arya metre is called old gati, which occurs in a some very early Prakrit and P li texts. ref cite web last Prof. K.R. Norman first title The origins of the ry metre url http www.ancient buddhist texts.net Textual Studies Prosody Articles Norman Arya Text.htm accessdate 2009 11 11 ref Varieties ry The basic ry verse has 12 m tr s in the first and third p da , 18 in the second, and 15 in the fourth p da . G ti The g ti meter has 12 m tr s in the first and third p da , and 18 in the second and fourth p da . Upag ti The upag ti meter has 12 m tr s in the first and third p da , and 15 in the second and fourth p da . Udg ti The udg ti meter has 12 m tr s in the first and third p da , and 15 in the second and 18 fourth p da . ry g ti The ry g ti meter has 12 m tr s in the first and third p da , and 20 in the second and fourth p da . References reflist See also Jain Prakrit Vedic meter Jain Agamas Category Jain languages Category Buddhist literature Category Poetic rhythm Category Indian poetics ... more details
Exchange Square can refer to Exchange Square Johannesburg , South Africa Exchange Square Hong Kong Exchange Square Manchester , England Exchange Square London , England geodis ... more details
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