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Also known as in, ″, inches

The inch (symbol: in or prime (symbol)|) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word inch is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb.

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An inch is a unit of length used in British Imperial and U.S. customary measurement systems, equal to one-twelfth of a foot. The term comes from the Roman word for "twelfth" and is sometimes used to describe similar units in other measurement systems, traditionally understood as roughly the width of a human thumb.

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Length
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Inch tape (cropped).jpg
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A measuring tape with inches
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in
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(the double prime)
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Imperial/US units
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Metric (SI) units
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25.4 mm
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Imperial/US units
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 yd or  ft

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Wikidata facts

Named after
thumb
Image
Inch tape.jpg
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conversion to standard unit
0.000015783
Unicode character
㏌
measured physical quantity
length
unit symbol
英寸
conversion to SI unit
0.0254
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
wd:Q218593 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)
Commons category
Inch
NCI Thesaurus ID
C48500
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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