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imperial system of units

system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced
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imperial system of units

Summary

imperial system of units is a system of units[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of system_of_units entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,478 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • imperial system of units's instance of is recorded as system of units[3].
  • imperial system of units's part of is recorded as Imperial and US customary measurement systems[4].
  • imperial system of units's Commons category is recorded as British Imperial units[5].
  • imperial system of units's has part is recorded as inch[6].
  • imperial system of units's has part is recorded as foot[7].
  • imperial system of units's has part is recorded as yard[8].
  • imperial system of units's has part is recorded as mile[9].
  • imperial system of units's has part is recorded as pound[10].
  • imperial system of units's has part is recorded as fluid ounce[11].
  • imperial system of units's has part is recorded as gallon[12].
  • imperial system of units's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03zt2[13].
  • imperial system of units's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Imperial units[14].
  • imperial system of units's page banner is recorded as WV banner Imperial units.jpg[15].
  • imperial system of units's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • imperial system of units's replaces is recorded as English unit of measurement[17].
  • imperial system of units's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/British-Imperial-System[18].
  • imperial system of units's BBC Things ID is recorded as 6b96bcf6-1329-4625-a902-8149a8542771[19].
  • imperial system of units's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00013189n[20].
  • imperial system of units's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as british-imperial-system[21].
  • imperial system of units's World of Physics ID is recorded as ImperialSystem[22].
  • imperial system of units's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 188678523[23].
  • imperial system of units's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Imperial[24].
  • imperial system of units's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/9051[25].
  • imperial system of units's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C188678523[26].

Why It Matters

imperial system of units ranks in the top 6% of system_of_units entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,478 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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