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  • 81Inch (Scots) — This article is about a unit of measurement. The word inch is also used in Scotland as an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic Innis , meaning an island, or piece of dry land in a swamp, e.g. Insch, Inchkeith, Inchkenneth.A Scottish inch… …

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  • 82Inch, County Clare — Infobox Irish Place name = Inch gaeilge = An Inse crest motto = map pin coords = left: 85px; top: 85px north coord = 52.8463 west coord = 8.9807 irish grid = R258774 area = elevation = 3 m province = Munster county = County Clare town pop = ....… …

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  • 83inch — {{11}}inch (n.1) linear measure, one twelfth of a foot, late O.E. ynce, M.E. unche (current spelling c.1300), from L. uncia a twelfth part, from root of unus one (see ONE (Cf. one)). An early borrowing from Latin, not found in any other Germanic… …

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  • 84Inch Abbey — Zisterzienserabtei Inch Die Reste der Inch Abbey Lage Vereinigtes Konigreich …

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  • 85Inch'ŏn — ▪ South Korea       port city, Kyŏnggi do (province), northwestern South Korea. It lies near the mouth of the Han River, 25 miles (40 km) west southwest of Seoul, with which it is connected by highway and railroad. It serves as the capital s… …

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  • 86Inch'Allah (homonymie) — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Inch Allah or Inch Allah est une transcription francophone de la phrase arabe إن شاء الله qui signifie si Dieu le veut. Inch Allah est un film de Marco de …

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  • 87Inch — This unusual name has three possible regional origins, the most likely being Scottish, from the places called Inch in Angus and in Perthshire. Inch can also be a variant of the surname Innes , which is a Scottish locational name from a barony in… …

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  • 88inch — inch1 noun 1》 a unit of linear measure equal to one twelfth of a foot (2.54 cm).     ↘(inches) informal a person s height or waist measurement.     ↘a very small amount or distance. 2》 a quantity of rainfall that would cover a horizontal surface… …

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  • 89inch — I [[t]ɪntʃ[/t]] n. 1) wam a unit of length, 1/12 of a foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters 2) a very small amount, degree, or distance: averted disaster by an inch[/ex] 3) to move by small degrees: We inched along the road[/ex] • every inch… …

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  • 90inch — (in or )    1. a traditional unit of distance equal to 1/12 foot or exactly 2.54 centimeters. The Old English word ynce is derived from the Latin uncia, meaning a 1/12 part; thus inch and ounce actually have the same root. The inch was originally …

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