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Encyclopedia > Span (unit of length)

Span is the width of a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the small finger. Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. ...

  • 1 Span = 0.2286 m
  • 1 Span = 9 Inch

In slavic languages analogue of span is pyad (peti, пядь). It is the width from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger. The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial unit of length. ... The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia. ... The index finger or forefinger is the second finger of a human hand, located between the thumb and the middle finger. ...

In swahili the analogue of span is unguru. It is the width from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger. The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial unit of length. ... Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ... This article is about the vulgar gesture. ...

  • 1 Unguru ~ 0.21 m
  • 1 Unguru ~ 6 fungu'lu
  • 1 Unguru ~ 8 Inch

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