ell

thumb|upright|Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a [[fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln)]] thumb|right|Prussian ell

Key facts

Unit.name: Ell
Unit.image: Ell.jpg
Unit.caption: The ell was originally a cubit, later replaced by the cloth-ell or "double ell".
Unit.quantity: Length
Unit.units_imp1: inch
Unit.inunits_imp1: 17.7
Unit.units_imp2: Metre
Unit.inunits_imp2: 0.45

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: unit of length
Subclass of: unit of length
Part of: Russian system of units
Named after: elbow
Image: Louvres-antiquites-egyptiennes-img 2748.jpg
Said to be same as: Q345416

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conversion to standard unit: 2
measured physical quantity: length
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent: wd:Q214377 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
unit symbol: ell
Commons category: Ell
different from: alen

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thumb|upright|Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a [[fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln)]] thumb|right|Prussian ell

An ell (from Proto-Germanic *alinō, cognate with Latin ulna) is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand). The word literally means "arm", and survives in the modern English word "elbow" (arm-bend). Later usage through the 19th century refers to several longer units, some of which are thought to derive from a "double ell".

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