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Distance Conversion

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Important Notes

The base unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the meter defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1⁄299792458 seconds". It is approximately equal to 1.0936 yd.
The basic unit of length in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard defined as exactly 0.9144 m. Common Imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include inch, foot, yard, mile, etc.
In addition, fathom (for depth; only in non-metric countries) (2 yards=1.8288 m) and nautical mile (one minute of arc of latitude=1852 m) are the units frequently used by sailors.
Meanwhile, Surveyors in the United States continue to use: chain (22 yards, or 20.1168 m) and rod (also called pole or perch) (quarter of a chain, or 5.0292 m)
Astronomical measure uses: Astronomical unit [AU] ≈ 149597870700 m (approximately the distance between the Earth and Sun), light-year [ly] ≈ 9460730472580.8 km (the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year), etc.

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Distance

Distance is a numerical measurement of how far apart objects or points are. In mathematics, a distance function or metric is a generalization of the concept of physical distance, a way of describing what it means for elements of some space to be "close to" or "far away from" each other.
Both distance and displacement measure the movement of an object. Distance cannot be negative and never decreases. Distance is a scalar quantity or a magnitude. Whereas displacement is a vector quantity with both magnitude and direction. Directed distance does not measure movement, it measures the separation of two points and can be a positive, zero or negative vector.

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A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are a given distance from a given point, the centre; equivalently it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is constant. The distance between any point of the circle and the centre is called the radius. A circle may also be . . . .

Percentages

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The term "percent" is derived from the Latin per centum, meaning "by the hundred". A percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%" or the abbreviations "pct.". Percentages are useful for comparing information where the sample sizes or totals are . . . .

Time

Time Converter

Time in physics is operationally defined as "what a clock reads". Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units (SI) and International System of Quantities. The SI base unit of time is the second. In classical non-relativistic physics, it is a scalar quantity. Time can be combined . . . .

Color

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Color or colour is the characteristic of visual perception described through color categories with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue or purple. Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. Colors may be specified as an RGB . . . .

Speed

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In everyday use and in kinematics, the Speed of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval, whereas the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as the duration of the . . . .

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History of Measurement :

The earliest recorded systems of calculations and measures originate in the 3rd or 4th millennium BC. Even the very earliest civilizations needed measurement for purposes of agriculture, construction and trade. Early standard units might only have applied to a single community or small region, with every area developing its own standards for lengths, areas, volumes and masses.

With the development of manufacturing technologies and the growing importance of trade between communities and ultimately across the Earth, standardized weights and measures became critical. Starting in the 18th century, modernized, simplified and uniform systems of weights and measures were developed, with the fundamental units defined by ever more precise methods in the science of metrology.