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2. SI base unit - Wikipedia

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   Contents. SI base unit. The SI base units are the standard units of measurement defined by the International System of Units (SI) for the seven base quantities of what is now known as the International System of Quantities: they are notably a basic set from which all other SI units can be derived. The units and their physical quantities are the ...

3. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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   Imperial units. The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road) The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 ( 5 Geo. 4. c.

4. Storage 24 - Wikipedia

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   Storage 24 is a 2012 British science fiction-horror film written and directed by Johannes Roberts and co-written by Davie Fairbanks, Marc Small, and Noel Clarke from an original idea by Clarke. Starring Noel Clarke , Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Colin O'Donoghue , the film follows a group of people become trapped inside a storage facility with a ...

5. McCloud Railway - Wikipedia

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   The units were used for all duties along the line, and as traffic increased on the road, the railroad ordered a single SD38-2, built August 1974 (Builder No. 74623-1). When the property was put up for sale in 1998, Union Pacific (with their SD38-2 yard fleet) showed interest. UP bought the single SD38-2, leaving the other three SD38s.

6. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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   A unit of time is any particular time interval, used as a standard way of measuring or expressing duration. The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), and by extension most of the Western world, is the second, defined as about 9 billion oscillations of the caesium atom. The exact modern SI definition is " [The second] is ...

7. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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   The apothecaries and troy pounds are divided into 12 ounces (of 480 grains) while the avoirdupois pound has 16 ounces (of 437.5 grains). The unit of volume, the gallon, has different values in the United States and in the United Kingdom – the US fluid gallon being about 0.83 imperial gallons and the US dry gallon being about 0.97 imperial ...