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Length is commonly understood to mean the most extended dimension of a fixed object. [1] However, this is not always the case and may depend on the position the object is in. Various terms for the length of a fixed object are used, and these include height, which is vertical length or vertical extent, width, breadth, and depth.
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Length. The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: length. Length is a measurement. The length of something is the distance between two ends of the thing. Short means a small length. Long means much length. Short and long are opposites. For two dimensional things, length is usually the longer side.
A unit of length is a way of measuring length or distance. Common units of length in the International System of Units (SI) are: metre and units that are developed from it, such as "centimetre" or "kilometre" But there are a lot of units that do not fit in the SI-System: fermi (fm) (= 1 femtometre in SI units) angstrom (Å) (= 100 picometres in ...
The metric system is a number of different systems of measurement with length based on the metre, mass on the gram, and volume on the litre. This system is used around the world. It was developed in France and first introduced there in 1795, 2 years after the execution of Louis XVI .
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