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21life span — 1. the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it. 2. the longevity of an individual. [1915 20] * * * Time between birth and death. It ranges from a… …
22Pressure measurement — The construction of a bourdon tube gauge, construction elements are made of brass Many techniques have been developed for the measurement of pressure and vacuum. Instruments used to measure pressure are called pressure gauges or vacuum gauges. A… …
23Audience measurement — measuring how many people are in an audience, usually in relation to radio listenership and television viewership, but also newspaper and magazine readership, and increasingly, usage of websites. It often also includes demographic and sometimes… …
24Obsolete Polish units of measurement — The traditional Polish units of measurement included two uniform yet distinct systems of weights and measures, as well as a number of related systems borrowed from neighbouring states. The first attempt at standardisation came with the… …
25List of humorous units of measurement — This is a sub article to List of unusual units of measurement Many comedians and humour writers have made use of, or invented, units of measurement intended primarily for their humour value. This is a list of such units invented by sources that… …
26Obsolete Russian units of measurement — For the Indian spinning wheel known as a charkha, see spinning wheel. A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned in 1924 when the Soviet Union adopted the metric… …
27Hindu units of measurement — Vedic and Puranic units of time span from the Paramáńu (about 17 microseconds) to the mahamanvantara (311.04 trillion years). Hindu theology considers the creation and destruction of the universe a cyclic process. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Time 2 …
28Computer Measurement Group — The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), founded in 1974, is a worldwide non profit organization of data processing professionals whose work involves measuring and managing the performance of computing systems. In this context, performance is… …
29Maltese units of measurement — In modern usage, metric is used almost exclusively in commercial transactions. These units are mostly historical, although they are still used in some limited contexts and in Maltese idioms and set phrases. Many of these terms are directly… …
30Units of Measurement — Do you know the story of the facetious unit of beauty called the millihelen ? Since it is that the astonishingly beautiful Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships , a millihelen is a unit of beauty equal to the ability to launch… …
