The palm is an obsolete anthropic unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized. The same name is also used for a second, rather larger unit …

A palm, when used as a unit of length, is usually four digits (fingers) or three inches, i.e. 7.62 cm (for the international inch). In English this unit is no longer in use as other units that are based …

scruple, unit of weight in the apothecaries’ system, equal to 20 grains, or one-third dram, and equivalent to 1.296 grams. It was sometimes mistakenly assigned to the avoirdupois system.

Other articles where palm is discussed: measurement system: Greeks and Romans: 97 inch); and the palm (palmus), or 14 Roman foot, was 74 mm (2.91 inches).

2023年10月16日 · A palm, when used as a unit of length, is usually four digits (fingers) or three inches, i.e. 7.62 cm (for the international inch). In English this unit is no longer in use as other …

The palm is an obsolete anthropic unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized. The same name is also used for a second, rather larger unit …

The palma (meaning palm of the hand) was a unit of length or distance in the old Castilian system of units. Since no actual Castilian standards are definitively known by the present day, the only …

2006年10月30日 · What is the unit called a palm? In England, a unit of length, originally a body unit (though influenced by the Roman palm), the breadth of the palm of the hand at the base …

2024年1月17日 · The palm is an obsolete anthropic unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized. The same name is also used for a second, …

The palm may be either one of two obsolete non-SI units of measurement of length. In English usage the palm, or small palm, also called handbreadth or handsbreadth, was originally based …