Hand derived units of measurement. 1: shaftment 2: Hand (In English, a “Hand” or “Handbreadth” is commonly used to represent the width of the palm, excluding the thumb.) 3: Palm (In English, a "Palm" is commonly used to represent four fingers held together, which is slightly less than the true width of the palm.) 4: Span 5: Finger 6: Digit (In English, a “Digit”, “Finger”, and “Fingerbreadth” are all used to represent the width of a finger. However, the value of the digit is slightly less than the value of the finger.)
Span is the width of a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the pinky finger. See also:English unit Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about modern humans. ... The pinky finger is the last and usually smallest finger on the far sides of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger. ... English unit is the American name for a unit in one of a number of systems of units of measurement, some obsolete, and some still in use. ...
In Slavic languages, the analogue of span is pyad (peti, пядь). It is the width from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger. See also:Obsolete Russian weights and measures ‹ The template below (Unit of length) is being considered for deletion. ... ‹ The template below (Unit of length) is being considered for deletion. ... Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup... The index finger or forefinger is the second finger of a human hand, located between the thumb and the middle finger. ... Obsolete Russian weights and measures were used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution until they were replaced in the Soviet Union by a metric system in 1924. ...
In Swahili, the equivalent of span is futuri. [1] Obsolete Russian weights and measures were used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution until they were replaced in the Soviet Union by a metric system in 1924. ... ‹ The template below (Unit of length) is being considered for deletion. ... ‹ The template below (Unit of length) is being considered for deletion. ... Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ...
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