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61fistmele — a traditional unit of distance equal to the width of a clenched fist with the thumb extended. This is about 6.5 inches or 16.5 centimeters, making the fistmele the same as the Saxon shaftment. The unit is used in archery, where it measures… …
62g — 1. see standard gravity 2. see grav 3. see gram 4. see gon 5. g a symbol for the average acceleration produced by gravity at the Earth s surface (sea level). The actual acceleration of gravity varies from place to place,… …
63jug — an informal name for the Scots pint, a unit of volume equal to about 1.80 U.S. liquid quarts or 1.70 liters. Specifically, the jug of Stirling is the actual vessel (on display at the Stirling Museum) which was the legal standard for Scottish… …
64marathon — a traditional unit of distance used in athletics. The length of a marathon is exactly 42 195 meters (about half an inch longer than 26 miles 385 yards). Invented for the first modern Olympic Games at Athens in 1896, the marathon recalls a run… …
65MWe — , MWt symbols used in the electric power industry to describe the size of generating plants. MWe is the symbol for the actual output of a generating station in megawatts of electricity; MWt is used for the heat energy, or thermal output,… …
66nautical mile — (nmi, naut mi, n mile, or NM) a unit of distance used primarily at sea and in aviation. The nautical mile is defined to be the average distance on the Earth s surface represented by one minute of latitude. This may seem odd to landlubbers, but …
67niacin equivalent — (NE) a unit used in nutrition. An essential nutrient, niacin is supplied in normal diets from tryptophan, an amino acid found in many foods. However, only a small fraction of tryptophan is converted into niacin in the body. Accordingly, 1… …
68percentage point — a unit of proportion, equal to 0.01 or 1%. This unit is used commonly to describe changes in rates or other quantities that are stated as percentages. For example, an interest rate that rises from 8% to 10% is said to rise by two percentage …
69quadrant — (quad) 1. a unit of angle measure equal to 1/4 circle, pi/2 radians, 90°, or 100 grads. 2. a unit of distance equal to the distance from the North Pole to the Equator. The metric system was originally designed to make this distance… …
70rem — a unit used for measuring the effective (or equivalent ) dose of radiation received by a human or some other living organism. One rem is equal to 0.01 sievert (Sv) or 10 millisieverts, which means it equals the actual dose received in rads… …
