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18 #: gonvert:341 gonvert:3011
22 #: gonvert:347 gonvert:3018
28 "The units are being written to stdout. You can capture this printout by starting gonvert from the command line as follows:\n"
29 "$ gonvert > file.txt"
33 msgid " - Unit Conversion Utility - Convertible units listing:"
38 "The units list has been written to stdout. You can capture this printout by starting gonvert from the command line as follows:\n"
39 "$ gonvert > file.txt"
55 msgid "Clear selections"
74 #: gonvert:972 gonvert:973
114 #: gonvert:1020 gonvert:1023
115 msgid "meter per second squared"
123 msgid "The ideal falling motion of a body that is subject only to the earth's gravitational field."
131 msgid "foot per second squared"
135 msgid "centimeter per second squared"
143 msgid "A unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)"
151 msgid "millimeter per second squared"
158 #: gonvert:1035 gonvert:1040
163 msgid "revolution / circle / perigon / turn"
167 msgid "The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc."
175 msgid "The angle formed by one line meeting another perpendicularly"
179 msgid "An arc of a circle which is equal in length to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc."
191 msgid "1/360 of a complete revolution."
195 msgid "grad | grade | gon"
199 msgid "One-hundredth of a right angle."
211 msgid "A unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian."
218 #: gonvert:1048 gonvert:2634
223 msgid "The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10deg 20')."
226 #: gonvert:1050 gonvert:2636
231 msgid "One sixtieth of a minute.(Marked thus (\"); as, 10deg 20' 30\"). ''"
234 #: gonvert:1052 gonvert:1844 gonvert:2787
239 msgid "Used in artillery; 1/6400 of a complete revolution."
243 msgid "centesimal minute"
247 msgid "One hundredth of a grade, 0.01 grade"
251 msgid "centesimal second"
255 msgid "One ten-thousandth of a grade, 0.0001 grade"
263 msgid "The eighth part of a circle (an arc of 45 degrees)."
271 msgid "The fourth part of a circle (an arc of 90 degrees)."
279 msgid "The sixth part of a circle (an arc of 60 degrees)."
287 msgid "1/32 of a circle. Points are used on the face of a compass (32 points). Each point is labelled clockwise starting from North as follows: North, North by East, North Northeast, Northeast by North, and Northeast, etc."
295 msgid "The twelfth part of a circle as in twelve signs of the zodiac (an arc of 30 degrees)."
299 msgid "Angular Velocity / Frequency"
302 #: gonvert:1069 gonvert:1076 gonvert:1216 gonvert:1249
303 msgid "radian per second"
307 msgid "kiloradian per second"
311 msgid "revolution per second"
314 #: gonvert:1074 gonvert:1247 gonvert:1519 gonvert:1520
318 #: gonvert:1075 gonvert:1521
319 msgid "Named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially. Having a periodic interval of one second."
323 msgid "milliradian per second"
327 msgid "revolution per minute"
331 msgid "revolution per hour"
335 msgid "revolution per day"
338 #: gonvert:1086 gonvert:1538
343 msgid "One billion hertz."
346 #: gonvert:1088 gonvert:1540
350 #: gonvert:1090 gonvert:1542
354 #: gonvert:1092 gonvert:1544
358 #: gonvert:1094 gonvert:1536
363 msgid "One million hertz."
366 #: gonvert:1096 gonvert:1534
371 msgid "One thousand hertz."
378 #: gonvert:1099 gonvert:1164
383 msgid "meter diameter circle"
387 msgid "Type the diameter of the circle in meters to find its area displayed in other fields."
391 msgid "centimeter diameter circle"
395 msgid "Type the diameter of the circle in centimeters to find its area displayed in other fields."
399 msgid "inch diameter circle"
403 msgid "Type the diameter of the circle in inches to find its area displayed in other fields."
407 msgid "foot diameter circle"
411 msgid "Type the diameter of the circle in feet to find its area displayed in other fields."
419 msgid "The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards."
427 msgid "A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English. Note: The acre was limited to its present definite quantity by statutes of Edward I., Edward III., and Henry VIII."
431 msgid "acre (Cheshire)"
439 msgid "acre (Scottish)"
443 msgid "arpent (French)"
447 msgid " 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre."
451 msgid "arpent (woodland)"
455 msgid "1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch"
463 msgid "Used in Nuclear physics to describe the apparent cross-sectional size of atomic sized objects that are bombarded with smaller objects (like electrons). 10^-28 square meters. 100 square femtometers. Originated from the semi-humorous idiom big as a barn and used by physicists to describe the size of the scattering object (Ex: That was as big as 5 barns!)."
471 msgid "Japanese. 2.45 acre"
475 msgid "circular inch"
478 #: gonvert:1128 gonvert:2946
483 msgid "desyatina | dessiatina"
487 msgid "Russian. 2.6996 acre. 2400 square sadzhens"
495 msgid "square pace (a pace is 5 feet)."
499 msgid "hide | carucate"
503 msgid "An ancient English measure of the amount of land required to support family"
511 msgid "A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres."
515 msgid "homestead | quarter section"
519 msgid "160 acres,1/4 square mile, or 1/4 section. Use by the governments of North America early settlers in the western states and provinces were allowed to take title to a homestead of 160 acres of land by registering a claim, settling on the land, and cultivating it."
527 msgid "Used to measure land. A square rod; the 160th part of an acre."
535 msgid "A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound. 1ft\262."
543 msgid "Used in the construction for measuring roofing material, finished lumber, and other building materials. One square is equals 100 square feet."
551 msgid "Used in land measuring. One square mile. An area of about 640 acres"
555 msgid "square league (land)"
563 msgid "square kilometer"
571 msgid "The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods."
574 #: gonvert:1156 gonvert:1882 gonvert:2767
579 msgid "A Japanese unit of area, the shaku equals 330.6 square centimeters (51.24 square inches). Note: shaku also means length and volume."
583 msgid "square chain (surveyor)"
587 msgid "A unit for land measure equal to four rods square, or one tenth of an acre."
595 msgid "4 rods square"
603 msgid "Also know as a centare is (1/100th of an are)."
611 msgid "A unit of area equal to one yard by one yard square syn: sq yd"
619 msgid "An area equal to that of a square the sides of which are twelve inches; 144 square inches."
627 msgid "A unit of area equal to one inch by one inch square syn: sq in"
631 msgid "square centimeter"
635 msgid "square micrometer"
639 msgid "square millimeter"
642 #: gonvert:1178 gonvert:2948
651 msgid "A division of territory six miles square (36miles\262), containing 36 sections."
655 msgid "roll (wallpaper)"
659 msgid "square Scottish ell"
663 msgid "fall (Scottish)"
667 msgid "joch (German) | yoke"
671 msgid "joch (German) is 40 square klafters"
675 msgid "labor (Texas)"
679 msgid "An area of land that could be cultivated by one farmer"
687 msgid "square pes (Roman)"
691 msgid "square alen (Denmark)"
695 msgid "ferfet (Iceland)"
699 msgid "square vara (Spanish)"
703 msgid "donum (Yugoslavia)"
707 msgid "sahme (Egyptian)"
711 msgid "tavola (Italian)"
715 msgid "cuadra (Paraguay)"
719 msgid "acaena (Greek)"
723 msgid "plethron (Greek)"
727 msgid "Atomic Physics"
730 #: gonvert:1217 gonvert:2056
739 msgid "Named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule (1818-1889). A unit of work which is equal to 10^7 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds."
746 #: gonvert:1222 gonvert:1589
747 msgid "The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs."
751 msgid "GeV Giga electronvolt"
755 msgid "neutron mass unit"
759 msgid "proton mass unit"
763 msgid "atomic mass unit"
767 msgid "MeV Mega electronvolt"
770 #: gonvert:1233 gonvert:2120
771 msgid "electron rest mass"
775 msgid "Rydberg constant"
779 msgid "Named after the Swedish physicist Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854-1919). A wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element"
787 msgid "A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt."
791 msgid "kayser or cm^-1"
795 msgid "Named after the German physicist Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser (1853-1940). Used to measure light and other electromagnetic waves. The \"wave number\" in kaysers equals the number of wavelengths per centimeter."
798 #: gonvert:1241 gonvert:2567 gonvert:2568
803 msgid "The basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the System International d'Unites"
811 msgid "Computer Data"
814 #: gonvert:1252 gonvert:1253
819 msgid "One bit of data. Binary representation On/Off."
823 msgid "nibble | hexit | quadbit"
827 msgid "One half a byte"
843 msgid "Usually described by one byte (256 possible characters can be defined by one byte)."
863 msgid "kilobyte | kibi"
867 msgid "2^10, 1024 bytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. kibi is the IEEE proposal."
871 msgid "megabyte | mebi"
875 msgid "2^20, 1024^2 bytes. 1024 kilobytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. mebi is the IEEE proposal."
879 msgid "gigabyte | gibi"
883 msgid "2^30, 1024^3. 1024 megabytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. gibi is the IEEE proposal."
887 msgid "terabyte | tebi"
891 msgid "2^40, 1024^4. 1024 gigabytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. tebi is the IEEE proposal."
895 msgid "petabyte | pebi"
899 msgid "2^50, 1024^5. 1024 terabytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. tebi is the IEEE proposal."
903 msgid "exabyte | exbi"
907 msgid "2^60, 1024^6, 1024 petabytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. tebi is the IEEE proposal."
911 msgid "zebi | zettabyte"
915 msgid "1024^7. 1024 exbibytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. tebi is the IEEE proposal."
919 msgid "yobi | yottabyte"
923 msgid "1024^8. 1024 yobibytes. 1024 comes from 2^10 which is close enough to 1000. tebi is the IEEE proposal."
927 msgid "Computer Data flow rate"
930 #: gonvert:1282 gonvert:1283
935 msgid "Named after the French telegraph engineer Jean-Maurice-\311mile Baudot (1845 - 1903). Data transmission measured in bits per second"
939 msgid "bits per second"
943 msgid "same as baud rate"
947 msgid "characters per second"
951 msgid "Rate to transmit one character. The character is usually described as one byte with one stop bit and one start bit (10 bits in total)."
955 msgid "Computer Numbers"
958 #: gonvert:1290 gonvert:1307
959 msgid "base 10 decimal"
963 msgid "base 2 binary"
967 msgid "Base two numbering system using the digits 0-1"
971 msgid "base 3 ternary | trinary"
975 msgid "Base three numbering system using the digits 0-2. Russian Nikolay Brusentsov built a trinary based computer system."
979 msgid "base 4 quaternary | quadrary"
983 msgid "Base four numbering system using the digits 0-3."
987 msgid "base 5 quinary"
991 msgid "Base five numbering system using the digits 0-4."
995 msgid "base 6 senary | hexary"
999 msgid "Base six numbering system using the digits 0-5."
1003 msgid "base 7 septenary | septary"
1007 msgid "Base seven numbering system using the digits 0-6."
1011 msgid "base 8 octonary | octal | octonal | octimal"
1015 msgid "Base eight numbering system using the digits 0-7. Commonly used in older computer systems."
1019 msgid "base 9 nonary"
1023 msgid "Base nine numbering system using the digits 0-8."
1027 msgid "Base ten numbering system using the digits 0-9."
1031 msgid "base 11 undenary"
1035 msgid "Base eleven numbering system using the digits 0-9,a."
1039 msgid "base 12 duodecimal"
1043 msgid "Base twelve numbering system using the digits 0-9,a-b."
1047 msgid "base 13 tridecimal"
1051 msgid "Base Thirteen numbering system using the digits 0-9,a-c."
1055 msgid "base 14 quattuordecimal"
1059 msgid "Base Fourteen numbering system using the digits 0-9,a-d."
1063 msgid "base 15 quindecimal"
1067 msgid "Base Fifteen numbering system using the digits 0-9,a-e."
1071 msgid "base 16 sexadecimal | hexadecimal | hex"
1075 msgid "Base Sixteen numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-f. Commonly used in computer systems."
1079 msgid "base 17 septendecimal"
1083 msgid "Base Sixteen numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-g."
1087 msgid "base 18 octodecimal"
1091 msgid "Base Sixteen numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-h."
1095 msgid "base 19 nonadecimal"
1099 msgid "Base Sixteen numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-i."
1103 msgid "base 20 vigesimal"
1107 msgid "Base Twenty numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-j."
1111 msgid "base 30 trigesimal"
1115 msgid "Base Thirty numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-r."
1123 msgid "Base Thirty-six numbering system using the digits 0-9,a-z."
1127 msgid "base 40 quadragesimal"
1131 msgid "Base Forty digits numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-f,A-C."
1135 msgid "base 50 quinquagesimal"
1139 msgid "Base Fifty digits numbering system using the digits 0-1,a-f,A-M."
1143 msgid "base 60 sexagesimal"
1147 msgid "Base Sixty numbering system using the digits 0-9,a-z,A-V."
1155 msgid "Base Sixty-three numbering system using the digits 0-9,a-z,A-Z. This is the highest numbering system that can be represented with all decimal numbers and lower and upper case English alphabet characters. Other number systems include septagesimal (base 70), octagesimal (base 80), nonagesimal (base 90), centimal (base 100), bicentimal (base 200), tercentimal (base 300), quattrocentimal (base 400), quincentimal (base 500)."
1159 msgid "roman numerals"
1163 msgid "A symbol set in the old Roman notation; I,V,X,L,C,D,M. Range 1 to 3999 (higher values cannot be represented with standard ASCII characters)."
1171 msgid "kilogram/cubic meter"
1175 msgid "kilogram per cubic meter"
1179 msgid "kg per cubic cm"
1183 msgid "kilograms per cubic centimeter."
1187 msgid "pound mass per gallon (UK)"
1190 #: gonvert:1350 gonvert:1352
1191 msgid "Pounds mass per US liquid gallon."
1195 msgid "pound mass per gallon (US)"
1199 msgid "slug per cubic ft"
1203 msgid "gram per cubic cm "
1207 msgid "gram per cubic meter "
1211 msgid "milligram/cubic meter "
1215 msgid "kilogram per liter"
1219 msgid "metric ton per cubic meter"
1223 msgid "pound per cubic foot"
1227 msgid "Pounds mass per cubic foot."
1231 msgid "pound per cubic inch"
1235 msgid "Pounds mass per cubic inch."
1243 msgid "Enter 1 here to find the density of aluminum."
1251 msgid "Enter 1 here to find the density of iron."
1259 msgid "Enter 1 here to find the density of copper."
1267 msgid "Enter 1 here to find the density of lead."
1275 msgid "Enter 1 here to find the density of gold."
1283 msgid "Enter 1 here to find the density of silver."
1287 msgid "water at 4degC"
1291 msgid "Enter 1 here to find the density of water at 4\260C. Water weighs 1 gram per cm\263."
1295 msgid "ounces per gallon (UK)"
1298 #: gonvert:1384 gonvert:1386
1303 msgid "ounces per gallon (US)"
1307 msgid "ton (UK | long) per cubic yard"
1311 msgid "ton (UK | long) per cubic foot"
1315 msgid "ton (US | short) per cubic yard"
1319 msgid "ton (US | short) per cubic foot"
1323 msgid "Electrical Current"
1326 #: gonvert:1397 gonvert:1398 gonvert:1974
1330 #: gonvert:1400 gonvert:1980
1355 msgid "The CGS electromagnetic unit of current."
1359 msgid "coulomb per second"
1367 msgid "The CGS electrostatic unit of current."
1371 msgid "Electrical Charge"
1383 msgid "Named after Michael Faraday the The English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867). The amount of electric charge that liberates one gram equivalent of any ion from an electrolytic solution. "
1395 msgid "Commonly used to describe the capacity of a battery."
1403 msgid "The CGS electromagnetic unit of charge."
1407 msgid "coulomb (weber)"
1411 msgid "Named after the French physicist and electrican Coulomb. (Physics) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one amp`ere in one second. Formerly called weber."
1415 msgid "microcoulomb"
1427 msgid "The CGS electrostatic unit of charge."
1431 msgid "electron charge"
1435 msgid "Electrical Voltage"
1438 #: gonvert:1437 gonvert:1440
1447 msgid "A unit of potential equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt."
1451 msgid "Named after the Italian electrician Alessandro Volta. The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to 1000/1434 the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15deg C."
1459 msgid "One billion volts."
1467 msgid "One million volts."
1475 msgid "One thousand volts."
1483 msgid "One thousandth of an volt."
1491 msgid "One millionth of an volt."
1499 msgid "One billionth of an volt."
1511 msgid "Electrical Resistance & Conductance"
1514 #: gonvert:1457 gonvert:1458
1519 msgid "Named after the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854). The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 10^9 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm"
1523 msgid "siemens | mho"
1527 msgid "Named after Ernst Werner von Siemens (1816-1892). A unit describing how well materials conduct equal to the reciprocal of an ohm syn: mho, S"
1535 msgid "millisiemens | millimho"
1539 msgid "microsiemens | micromho"
1555 msgid "One billion ohms."
1567 msgid "One million ohms."
1575 msgid "One thousand ohms."
1587 msgid "One thousandth of an ohm."
1599 msgid "One millionth of an ohm."
1607 msgid "One billionth of an ohm."
1619 msgid "Electrical Inductance"
1622 #: gonvert:1487 gonvert:1488
1627 msgid "Named after the American physicist Joseph Henry (1797-1878). The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second."
1655 msgid "Electrical Capacitance"
1658 #: gonvert:1503 gonvert:1504
1663 msgid "Named after the English electrician Michael Faraday. The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt."
1671 msgid "A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads"
1695 msgid "Electromagnetic Radiation"
1698 #: gonvert:1522 gonvert:1829
1702 #: gonvert:1523 gonvert:1830
1703 msgid "Equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian."
1706 #: gonvert:1524 gonvert:1831 gonvert:2518
1710 #: gonvert:1526 gonvert:1833
1714 #: gonvert:1528 gonvert:1835
1715 msgid "micrometer | micron"
1718 #: gonvert:1529 gonvert:1836
1719 msgid "A metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter. The thousandth part of one millimeter."
1722 #: gonvert:1530 gonvert:1837
1726 #: gonvert:1531 gonvert:1838
1727 msgid "A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter."
1730 #: gonvert:1532 gonvert:1666
1734 #: gonvert:1533 gonvert:1667
1735 msgid "Equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation"
1739 msgid "electron Volt"
1743 msgid "Energy. e=h\366f where h = Planks constant (4.13566 x 10^-15 electron volts/second). f = frequency in Hertz."
1747 msgid "Energy | Work"
1750 #: gonvert:1549 gonvert:1572
1751 msgid "joule | wattsecond | newton-meter"
1759 msgid "A measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of 1000 tons of TNT"
1763 msgid "gigawatt-hour"
1767 msgid "megawatt-hour"
1771 msgid "kilowatt-hour"
1775 msgid "horsepower-hour"
1787 msgid "kg force meters"
1791 msgid "Work done by one kilogram of force acting through a distance of one meter."
1803 msgid "British thermal unit"
1807 msgid "Named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule(1818-1889). A unit of work which is equal to 10^7 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds."
1819 msgid "The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0deg to 1deg."
1823 msgid "foot-poundals"
1827 msgid "foot-pound force"
1831 msgid "A unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot"
1847 msgid "erg | dyne-centimeter"
1855 msgid "A billion electronvolts"
1863 msgid "a million electronvolts"
1867 msgid "electron volt"
1871 msgid "A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt"
1878 #: gonvert:1598 gonvert:1612
1879 msgid "litres per second"
1883 msgid "A cubic decimeter of material moving past a point every second."
1886 #: gonvert:1600 gonvert:1614
1887 msgid "litres per minute"
1891 msgid "A cubic decimeter of material moving past a point every minute."
1895 msgid "cubic feet per minute"
1899 msgid "Commonly used to describe the flow rate produced by a large fan or blower."
1903 msgid "cubic feet per second"
1907 msgid "cubic inches per minute"
1911 msgid "cubic inches per second"
1915 msgid "Flow (liquid)"
1919 msgid "A cubic decimeter of material moving past a point every second"
1923 msgid "US gallons per minute"
1927 msgid "US gallons per second"
1931 msgid "UK gallons per minute"
1935 msgid "UK gallons per second"
1943 msgid "tonne of force"
1947 msgid "Metric ton of force, 1000 kilonewtons."
1951 msgid "ton of force"
1955 msgid "2000 pounds of force."
1963 msgid "Named from the Greek word sthenos, strength. One sthene is the force required to accelerate a mass of one tonne at a rate of 1 m/s2. "
1967 msgid "atomic weight"
1971 msgid "Generally understood as the weight of the hydrogen atom."
1974 #: gonvert:1634 gonvert:2911
1979 msgid "Kilopounds of force."
1987 msgid "kilogram force | kilopond"
1999 msgid "Named after the English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727). A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes"
2011 msgid "A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes."
2027 msgid "The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second."
2039 msgid "klafter | faden (German)"
2042 #: gonvert:1659 gonvert:1661
2043 msgid "Similar to the fathom."
2047 msgid "klafter | faden (Switzerland)"
2051 msgid "earth diamater"
2055 msgid "Diameter for the Earth."
2059 msgid "actus (roman actus)"
2063 msgid "Land measurement, 120 Roman feet (pedes monetales). This was equivalent to 35.47872 meters."
2067 msgid "arshin | arshine | archin"
2071 msgid "Russian. 28 inches"
2079 msgid "arpentcan = 27.52 mile"
2083 msgid "arpent (Canadian)"
2087 msgid "Canadian unit of land measurement. 191.835 ft"
2091 msgid "arpentlin | French arpent"
2095 msgid "French unit of land measurement. 30 toises"
2103 msgid "Arabian measure."
2107 msgid "astronomical unit"
2111 msgid "Used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)."
2119 msgid "Formerly, a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch."
2127 msgid "Named after the Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962), who explained the structure of atoms in 1913. The bohr radius represents the mean distance between the proton and the electron in an unexcited hydrogen atom. 52.9177 picometers. "
2135 msgid "A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards."
2139 msgid "bottom measure"
2143 msgid "One fortieth of an inch."
2147 msgid "cable length"
2151 msgid "A nautical unit of depth. 720 feet."
2155 msgid "caliber (gun barrel caliber)"
2159 msgid "The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column."
2166 #: gonvert:1693 gonvert:1699 gonvert:1701
2171 msgid "chain (surveyors | Gunters)"
2175 msgid "A surveyors instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.One commonly in use is Gunter's chain, which consists of one hundred links, each link being seven inches and ninety-two one hundredths in length; making up the total length of rods, or sixty-six, feet; hence, a measure of that length; hence, also, a unit for land measure equal to four rods."
2179 msgid "chain (engineers)"
2199 msgid "An informal measurement, about 100 yards"
2203 msgid "cubit (Biblical | Hebrew | English)"
2207 msgid "A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. Note: The cubit varies in length in different countries, the English,Hebrew and Biblical cubits are 18 inches."
2211 msgid "cubit (Indian) | hasta"
2215 msgid "cubit (Roman)"
2219 msgid "A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. Note: The cubit varies in length in different countries, the Roman cubit is 17.47 inches."
2223 msgid "cubit (Greek) | pechya"
2227 msgid "A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. Note: The cubit varies in length in different countries, the Greek cubit is 18.20 inches."
2231 msgid "cubit (Israeli)"
2235 msgid "A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. Note: The cubit varies in length in different countries, the Israeli cubit is 21.8 inches."
2239 msgid "cloth finger"
2242 #: gonvert:1715 gonvert:1717
2243 msgid "Used in sewing"
2247 msgid "cloth quarter"
2251 msgid "compton wavelength of the electron"
2254 #: gonvert:1719 gonvert:1721 gonvert:1723
2255 msgid "Named after Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962)"
2259 msgid "compton wavelength of the proton"
2263 msgid "compton wavelength of the neutron"
2267 msgid "classical electron radius"
2271 msgid "digit | digitus"
2275 msgid "A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch."
2279 msgid "diamond (Typographical)"
2283 msgid "4 1/2 pt in height."
2287 msgid "pearl (Typographical)"
2291 msgid "5 pt in height."
2295 msgid "agate | ruby (Typographical)"
2299 msgid "Used in typing. A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. 5 1/2 pt in height."
2303 msgid "nonpareil (Typographical)"
2307 msgid "6 pt in height."
2311 msgid "minion (Typographical)"
2315 msgid "7 pt in height."
2319 msgid "brevier (Typographical)"
2323 msgid "8 pt in height."
2327 msgid "bourgeois (Typographical)"
2331 msgid "9 pt in height."
2335 msgid "elite | long primer (Typographical)"
2339 msgid "10 pt in height."
2343 msgid "small pica (Typographical)"
2347 msgid "11 pt in height."
2351 msgid "pica (Typographical)"
2355 msgid "A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.12 pt in height"
2359 msgid "english (Typographical)"
2363 msgid "14 pt in height."
2367 msgid "columbian (Typographical)"
2371 msgid "16 pt in height."
2375 msgid "great primer (Typographical)"
2379 msgid "18 pt in height."
2383 msgid "point (pica) (Typographical)"
2387 msgid "Typographical measurement. This system was developed in England and is used in Great-Britain and the US. 1 pica equals 12 pica points."
2391 msgid "point (didot) (Typographical)"
2395 msgid "Typographical measurement. The didot system originated in France but was used in most of Europe"
2399 msgid "cicero (Typographical)"
2403 msgid "Typographical measurement. 1 cicero equals 12 didot points."
2407 msgid "point (PostScript) (Typographical)"
2411 msgid "Typographical measurement. Created by Adobe. There are exactly 72 PostScript points in 1 inch."
2415 msgid "ell (English)"
2418 #: gonvert:1765 gonvert:1767 gonvert:1769
2419 msgid "A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37."
2423 msgid "ell (Dutch | Flemish)"
2427 msgid "ell (Scotch)"
2435 msgid "Used in typography. A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number."
2443 msgid "Used in typography. Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter."
2451 msgid "6 feet. Approximately the space to which a man can extend his arms."
2455 msgid "fathom (Greek)"
2459 msgid "4 Greek cubits."
2467 msgid "a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter "
2471 msgid "finger breadth"
2475 msgid "The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch."
2479 msgid "finger length"
2483 msgid "The length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard."
2491 msgid "Equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. This measure is supposed to be taken from the length of a man's foot."
2495 msgid "foot (Assyrian)"
2499 msgid "foot (Arabian)"
2503 msgid "foot (Roman) | pes"
2507 msgid "foot (geodetic | survey)"
2511 msgid "A former U.S. definition of the foot as exactly 1200/3937 meter or about 30.48006096 centimeters. This was the official U.S. definition of the foot from 1866 to 1959; it makes the meter equal exactly 39.37 inches. In 1959 the survey foot was replaced by the international foot, equal to exactly 30.48 centimeters. However, the survey foot remains the basis for precise geodetic surveying in the U.S."
2523 msgid "Arabian measure"
2527 msgid "gradus (Roman)"
2535 msgid "A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses."
2538 #: gonvert:1802 gonvert:2520
2542 #: gonvert:1803 gonvert:2521
2543 msgid "The twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise."
2551 msgid "Japanese fathom. The ken is the length of a traditional tatami mat."
2555 msgid "league (land | statute)"
2559 msgid " Used as a land measure. 3 statute miles."
2563 msgid "league (nautical)"
2567 msgid " Used as a marine measure. 3 nautical miles."
2575 msgid "A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile."
2579 msgid "light second"
2583 msgid "The distance over which light can travel in one second; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances."
2591 msgid "The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun."
2599 msgid "A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch."
2603 msgid "link (Gunters | surveyors)"
2607 msgid "Part of a surveyors instrument (chain) which consists of links and is used in measuring land. One commonly in use is Gunter's chain, which consists of one hundred links, each link being 7.92\" in length."
2611 msgid "link (US | engineers)"
2615 msgid "Used by surveyors. In the U.S., where 100-foot chains are more common, the link is the same as the foot. "
2623 msgid "a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards"
2631 msgid "In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers."
2639 msgid "Being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile."
2642 #: gonvert:1832 gonvert:2519
2643 msgid "The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch."
2647 msgid "A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch."
2655 msgid "A metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter."
2663 msgid "A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter."
2667 msgid "Equal to one thousandth of an inch; used to specify thickness (e.g., of sheets or wire)"
2671 msgid "mile (Roman)"
2675 msgid "5000 Roman feet."
2679 msgid "mile (statute)"
2683 msgid "Mile is from the Latin word for 1000 (mille). A mile conforming to statute, that is, in England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as distinguished from any other mile."
2687 msgid "mile (nautical | geographical)"
2691 msgid "Geographical, or Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of the earth, or about 6080.27 feet."
2695 msgid "nail (cloth)"
2699 msgid "Used for measuring cloth. 1/20 ell. The length of the last two joints (including the fingernail) of the middle finger. The nail is equivalent to 1/16 yard, 1/4 span."
2707 msgid "Equal to 15 fathoms"
2715 msgid "The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other. Note: Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet."
2719 msgid "pace (Roman) | passus"
2723 msgid " The Roman pace (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet."
2727 msgid "pace (quick-time marching)"
2731 msgid "The regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is thirty inches for quick time."
2735 msgid "pace (double-time marching)"
2739 msgid "The regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is thirty-six inches for double time. "
2743 msgid "palm (Greek)"
2747 msgid "A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height. In Greece, the palm was reckoned at three inches. At the present day, this measure varies in the most arbitrary manner, being different in each country, and occasionally varying in the same. One third of a Greek span,"
2751 msgid "palm (Roman lesser)"
2755 msgid "A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height. One of two Roman measures of the palm, the lesser palm is 2.91 inches. At the present day, this measure varies in the most arbitrary manner, being different in each country, and occasionally varying in the same."
2759 msgid "palm (Roman greater)"
2763 msgid "A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height. One of two Roman measures of the palm, the greater palm is 8.73 inches. At the present day, this measure varies in the most arbitrary manner, being different in each country, and occasionally varying in the same."
2771 msgid "A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at three and a half English miles."
2779 msgid "A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years"
2783 msgid "rod | pole | perch"
2787 msgid "Containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole."
2795 msgid "Japanese league."
2807 msgid "sadzhens | sagene | sazhen"
2811 msgid "Russian. Equal to about 6.5 English feet."
2815 msgid " A Japanese foot. Note: shaku also means area and volume."
2823 msgid "120 yards. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel."
2827 msgid "soccer field"
2835 msgid "solar diameter"
2839 msgid "Diameter of our sun."
2843 msgid "span (Greek)"
2847 msgid "To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder. One half of a Greek cubit."
2851 msgid "span (cloth)"
2859 msgid "spindle (cotten yarn)"
2863 msgid "A cotten yarn measure containing 15,120 yards."
2867 msgid "spindle (linen yarn)"
2871 msgid "A linen yarn measure containing 14,400 yards."
2875 msgid "stadia (Greek) | stadion"
2878 #: gonvert:1899 gonvert:1903
2879 msgid "A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia."
2883 msgid "stadium (Persian)"
2887 msgid "stadium (Roman)"
2891 msgid "sun (Japanese)"
2895 msgid "Japanese measurement."
2899 msgid "toise (French)"
2903 msgid "French fathom."
2907 msgid "vara (Spanish)"
2911 msgid "A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. 33.385 inches. "
2915 msgid "vara (Mexican)"
2919 msgid "A Mexican measure of length equal to about one yard. 32.99 inches. "
2923 msgid "verst | werst"
2927 msgid "A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet."
2935 msgid "Equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure."
2943 msgid "candela per square centimeter"
2947 msgid "kilocandela per square meter"
2959 msgid "Named after the German physicist Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777).Equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter"
2963 msgid "candela per square inch"
2967 msgid "candela per square foot"
2971 msgid "foot lambert"
2975 msgid "millilambert"
2979 msgid "candela per square meter"
2983 msgid "lumen per steradian square meter"
2991 msgid "Named from the Latin niteo, to shine."
2999 msgid "Illumination"
3007 msgid "a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter; 10,000 phots equal 1 lux"
3011 msgid "lumen per square centimeter"
3019 msgid "lumen per square foot"
3027 msgid "Equal to the illumination produced by luminous flux of one lumen falling perpendicularly on a surface one meter square. Also called meter-candle."
3031 msgid "lumen per square meter"
3035 msgid "candela steradian per square meter"
3039 msgid "Luminous Intensity (point sources)"
3047 msgid "The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a blackbody radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin syn: candle, cd, standard candle."
3051 msgid "lumen per steradian"
3055 msgid "hefner candle"
3059 msgid "Named after F. von Hefner-Altenack (1845-1904)"
3063 msgid "Luminous Flux"
3071 msgid "Equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity"
3075 msgid "candela steradian"
3079 msgid "Magnetomotive force"
3087 msgid "A unit of magnetomotive force equal to the magnetomotive force produced by the passage of 1 ampere through 1 complete turn of a coil."
3095 msgid "Named after the English scientist William Gilbert (1544-1603)"
3099 msgid "oersted-centimeter"
3103 msgid "The same value as the gilbert."
3107 msgid "Magnetic Flux"
3115 msgid "From the name of Professor Weber, a German electrician. One volt second."
3127 msgid "unit pole (electro magnetic unit)"
3135 msgid "Named after the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). A cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss."
3139 msgid "line of force"
3143 msgid "Same as Maxwell"
3147 msgid "Magnetic Field strength"
3155 msgid "Named after the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851). The C.G.S. unit of magnetic reluctance or resistance, equal to the reluctance of a centimeter cube of air (or vacuum) between parallel faces. Also, a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux."
3159 msgid "ampere per meter"
3163 msgid "ampere-turn per meter"
3167 msgid "kiloampere per meter"
3171 msgid "ampere-turn per inch"
3175 msgid "newton per weber"
3179 msgid "Same as ampere per meter"
3183 msgid "Magnetic Flux Density"
3191 msgid "Named after the Croatian born inventer Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter."
3207 msgid "weber per square meter"
3219 msgid "Named after German mathematician and astronomer Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855). The C.G.S. unit of density of magnetic field, equal to a field of one line of force per square centimeter, being thus adopted as an international unit at Paris in 1900; sometimes used as a unit of intensity of magnetic field. It was previously suggested as a unit of magnetomotive force."
3223 msgid "maxwell per square centimeter"
3227 msgid "maxwell per square inch"
3231 msgid "line per square inch"
3235 msgid "Same as Maxwell per square inch."
3243 msgid "one nanotesla."
3255 msgid "Greek measure."
3259 msgid "oka (Egyptian)"
3270 #: gonvert:2045 gonvert:2047 gonvert:2049
3271 msgid "Egyptian measure."
3286 #: gonvert:2051 gonvert:2053
3287 msgid "Indian measure."
3303 msgid "A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39deg Fahrenheit."
3315 msgid "The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains."
3323 msgid "A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois."
3331 msgid "A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the millionth part of a gram."
3335 msgid "ton (UK | long | gross | deadweight)"
3339 msgid "A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds"
3343 msgid "ton (US | short)"
3347 msgid "A US unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds"
3351 msgid "tonne | metric ton"
3355 msgid "A metric ton, One Megagram. 1000 kg"
3359 msgid "pound (avoirdupois)"
3363 msgid "The pound in general use in the United States and in England is the pound avoirdupois, which is divided into sixteen ounces, and contains 7,000 grains. The pound troy is divided into twelve ounces, and contains 5,760 grains. 144 pounds avoirdupois are equal to 175 pounds troy weight"
3367 msgid "pound (troy)"
3371 msgid "hundredweight (short | net | US)"
3375 msgid "A denomination of weight of 100 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois."
3379 msgid "hundredweight (long | English)"
3383 msgid "A denomination of weight of 112 pounds"
3391 msgid "One slug is the mass accelerated at 1 foot per second per second by a force of 1 pound."
3395 msgid "ounce (troy)"
3399 msgid "A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains."
3403 msgid "ounce (avoirdupois)"
3407 msgid "A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois"
3411 msgid "dram (avoirdupois)"
3415 msgid "A weight; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce."
3419 msgid "dram (troy | apothecary)"
3423 msgid "A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains."
3427 msgid "scruple (troy)"
3431 msgid "A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a troy dram."
3439 msgid "The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed."
3447 msgid "The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois and 5,760 grains constitute the pound troy."
3451 msgid "amu (atomic mass unit) | dalton"
3455 msgid "Unit of mass for expressing masses of atoms or molecules."
3459 msgid "catty | caddy | chin"
3463 msgid "An Chinese or East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds."
3471 msgid "British for 100 pounds. Also called hundredweight in the US."
3475 msgid "cotton bale (US)"
3479 msgid "US measurement. 500 pounds"
3483 msgid "cotton bale (Egypt)"
3487 msgid "Egyptian measurement. 750 pounds"
3495 msgid "From the Greek word for barleycorn. The weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0.01\260 centigrade and with a and pressure of 1 atmosphere."
3503 msgid "Roman weight measuring 60 troy grains"
3511 msgid "Arabian weight measuring 4.2 gram"
3515 msgid "doppelzentner"
3519 msgid "Metric hundredweight = 100 kg"
3523 msgid "drachma (Greek)"
3527 msgid "The weight of an old Greek drachma coin"
3531 msgid "drachma (Dutch)"
3535 msgid "The weight of an old Dutch drachma coin"
3543 msgid "Mass of the Earth."
3547 msgid "The mass of an electron as measured when the it is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body."
3555 msgid "Russian, 0.9 pounds"
3559 msgid "obolos (Ancient Greece)"
3563 msgid "Ancient Greek weight of an obol coin, 1/6 drachma"
3567 msgid "obolos (Modern Greece)"
3571 msgid "Modern Greek name for decigram."
3579 msgid "From an ancient Greek word for matter. One hyl is the mass that is accelerated at one meter per second per second by one kilogram of force. 0.00980665 kg."
3583 msgid "pennyweight (troy)"
3587 msgid "A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of a troy ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny."
3591 msgid "bekah (Biblical)"
3595 msgid "1/2 shekel, 5 pennyweight."
3599 msgid "shekel (Israeli)"
3603 msgid "The sixtieth part of a mina. Ten pennyweight. An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock."
3607 msgid "mina (Greek) | minah (Biblical)"
3611 msgid "The weight of the ancient Greek mina coin. 60 shekels"
3615 msgid "talent (Roman)"
3619 msgid "125 Roman libra."
3623 msgid "talent (silver)"
3627 msgid "3,000 shekels or 125 lbs."
3631 msgid "talent (gold)"
3635 msgid "2 silver talents, 250 lbs."
3639 msgid "talent (Hebrew)"
3647 msgid "Japanese kin, 1.323 pound."
3655 msgid "Japanese kwan. 8.27 pound"
3659 msgid "liang | tael"
3663 msgid "Chinese. 1/16 catty"
3667 msgid "libra | librae | as | pondus"
3671 msgid "Roman originator of the English pound (lb). 12 uncia"
3675 msgid "libra (Mexican)"
3679 msgid "libra (Spanish)"
3683 msgid "livre (French)"
3687 msgid "quarter (long)"
3691 msgid "The fourth part of a long hundredweight. 28 pounds"
3695 msgid "quarter (short)"
3699 msgid "The fourth part of a short hundredweight. 25 pounds"
3703 msgid "mite (English)"
3707 msgid "A small weight; one twentieth of a grain."
3711 msgid "neutron rest mass"
3715 msgid "The mass of a neutron as measured when the it is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body."
3719 msgid "proton rest mass"
3723 msgid "The mass of a proton as measured when the it is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body."
3727 msgid "pfund (German)"
3731 msgid "German pound. 500 grams. 16 unze."
3735 msgid "unze (German)"
3739 msgid "German ounce. 1/16 pfund."
3743 msgid "lot (German)"
3747 msgid "One half unze."
3751 msgid "picul | tan | pecul | pecal (Chinese | Summatra))"
3755 msgid "100 catty. 133 1/2 pounds"
3759 msgid "picul (Japan)"
3763 msgid "133 1/3 pounds"
3767 msgid "picul (Borneo)"
3771 msgid "135 5/8 pounds"
3775 msgid "pood (Russian)"
3779 msgid "A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois."
3787 msgid "A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms"
3791 msgid "quintal (short UK)"
3799 msgid "quintal (long UK)"
3807 msgid "quintal (Spanish)"
3811 msgid "Spanish hundredweight"
3815 msgid "scrupulum (Roman)"
3819 msgid "stone (legal)"
3827 msgid "stone (butchers)"
3831 msgid "Meat or fish. 8 pounds"
3835 msgid "stone (cheese)"
3843 msgid "stone (hemp)"
3851 msgid "stone (glass)"
3863 msgid "Ancient Roman. A twelfth part, as of the Roman \"as\" or \"libra\"; an ounce. 420 grains"
3867 msgid "Musical notes"
3871 msgid "whole note | semibreve"
3875 msgid "A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note."
3883 msgid "A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves."
3886 #: gonvert:2214 gonvert:2789
3891 msgid "A time note, a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets."
3899 msgid "A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note."
3907 msgid "An eighth note."
3927 msgid "Named after the Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt (1736-1819). A unit of power or activity equal to 10^7 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second."
3939 msgid "horsepower (boiler)"
3943 msgid "A unit of power representing the power exerted by a horse in pulling."
3951 msgid "ton of refrigeration"
3955 msgid "btu per second"
3959 msgid "calorie per second"
3963 msgid "kilcalorie per hour"
3967 msgid "Useful for calculating heating facilities and kitchens."
3971 msgid "frig per hour"
3975 msgid "The same as kcal/h, but used for air conditioning and refrigerating."
3979 msgid "foot pound force per second"
3983 msgid "joule per second"
3987 msgid "newton meter per second"
3991 msgid "btu per hour"
3995 msgid "foot pound force per minute"
3999 msgid "erg per second"
4003 msgid "dyne centimeter per second"
4011 msgid "Used to measure the leakage of vacuum pumps. A flow of one liter per second at a pressure of one micrometer of mercury."
4015 msgid "Pressure and Stress"
4023 msgid "Named after the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662). Equal to one newton per square meter."
4039 msgid "atmosphere (absolute,standard)"
4043 msgid "The average pressure of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level."
4047 msgid "atmosphere (technical)"
4051 msgid "A metric unit equal to one kilogram of force per square centimeter."
4059 msgid "From the Greek word baros."
4063 msgid "pound force per square inch"
4067 msgid "ounces per square inch"
4071 msgid "feet of water (60F,15.5C)"
4075 msgid "inches of water (60F,15.5C)"
4079 msgid "meter of water (60F,15.5C)"
4083 msgid "centimeter of water (60F,15.5C)"
4087 msgid "millimeter of water (60F,15.5C)"
4091 msgid "feet of water (39.2F,4C)"
4095 msgid "inches of water (39.2F,4C)"
4099 msgid "meter of water (39.2F,4C)"
4103 msgid "centimeter of water (39.2F,4C)"
4107 msgid "millimeter of water (39.2F,4C)"
4111 msgid "inches of mercury (60F,15.5C)"
4115 msgid "millimeter of mercury (0C)"
4119 msgid "inches of mercury (0C)"
4123 msgid "micrometer of mercury (0C)"
4127 msgid "centimeter of mercury (0C)"
4131 msgid "foot of mercury (0C)"
4139 msgid "Named after Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli, (1608-1647). A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere."
4147 msgid "Used in vacuum technology. Equal to 1 millitorr."
4155 msgid "pound force per square foot"
4159 msgid "tons (UK) per square foot"
4163 msgid "tons (US) per square foot"
4167 msgid "kilogram force per square meter"
4171 msgid "kilogram force per square centimeter"
4175 msgid "Used for ground pressure and steel stress."
4179 msgid "newton per square meter"
4183 msgid "newton per square centimeter"
4187 msgid "newton per square millimeter"
4191 msgid "Used for concrete stress."
4195 msgid "kiloNewton per square meter"
4199 msgid "Used for ground pressure."
4203 msgid "kiloNewton per square centimeter"
4207 msgid "Used for loads and concrete stress."
4215 msgid "dyne per square centimeter"
4219 msgid "barie | barye"
4227 msgid "From the Greek word piezein (to press). The pieze is a pressure of one sthene per square meter. 1000 newtons per square meter."
4231 msgid "Prefixes and Suffixes"
4235 msgid "centillion (US)"
4239 msgid "10^303. Note: British word centillion means 10^600 (too big for this program to represent as floating point)."
4243 msgid "novemtrigintillion (US) | vigintillion (UK)"
4251 msgid "octotrigintillion (US)"
4259 msgid "septentrigintillion (US) | novemdecillion (UK)"
4267 msgid "sextrigintillion (US)"
4275 msgid "quintrigintillion (US) | octodecillion (UK)"
4283 msgid "quattuortrigintillion (US)"
4291 msgid "tretrigintillion (US) | septendecillion (UK)"
4303 msgid "10^100 Ten dotrigintillion (US). Note: a googolplex is 10^10^10^2."
4307 msgid "dotrigintillion (US)"
4315 msgid "untrigintillion (US) | sexdecillion (UK)"
4323 msgid "trigintillion (US)"
4331 msgid "novemvigintillion (US) | quindecillion (UK)"
4339 msgid "octovigintillion (US)"
4347 msgid "septenvigintillion (US) | quattuordecillion (UK)"
4355 msgid "sexvigintillion (US)"
4363 msgid "quinvigintillion (US) | tredecillion (UK)"
4371 msgid "quattuorvigintillion (US)"
4379 msgid "trevigintillion (US) | duodecillion (UK)"
projects / gonvert / blob