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Inch (in) — Imperial/US unit defined exactly as 25.4 millimeters
Standard in manufacturing and consumer specs in the US, including displays and lumber. Defined metrically for exact conversions.
- Symbol: in
- System: Imperial/US customary
- Exact relations: 1 in = 25.4 mm = 2.54 cm = 0.0254 m (exact)
- Other relations: 12 in = 1 ft, 36 in = 1 yd
- Typical examples: screen sizes, pipe/nominal lumber sizes, drill bits
Smoot - humorous nonstandard length unit
Smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length equal to 5 ft 7 in, the height of Oliver R. Smoot (MIT ’62). Used to measure the Harvard Bridge in 1958 as “364.4 smoots ± 1 ear” and referenced in engineering culture and local markings
- Symbol: none standardized (sometimes sm or smt)
- System: Informal/non-SI
- Exact relations: 1 smoot = 5 ft 7 in = 67 in (exact)
- Metric equivalents: 1 smoot = 67 × 0.0254 m = 1.7018 m (exact)
- Typical examples: Harvard Bridge markings at 10-smoot intervals; humorous unit conversions in campus lore