Sentence examples for units of length from inspiring English sources

Because of this, time is measured in units of length and frequency is measured in units of inverse length.

That is, we pick units of length so that the width is 1, and define everything in terms of that (see also units in meep).

The existence of similar figures of different size, or the conventional character of units of length, appeared self-evident to mathematicians of the period.

Planck had little clue, but he reveled in the possibility he had discovered fundamental units of length and time that would be the same for all civilizations throughout the universe.

A common feature of all the methods is the use of a material constant with the units of length, which we call the critical distance.

So astronomers knew the relative distances between each planet and the Sun, but they did not know how those distances compared to terrestrial units of length (like miles) or to the size of the Earth.

When we say that a rod is 3 units-of-length (say, meters) long, we are in effect saying that the length of the rod, in meters, is 3. Equivalently: the number of units-of-length that comprise the length of the rod is 3.

Metre (m), also spelled meter, in measurement, fundamental unit of length in the metric system and in the International Systems of Units (SI).

The fundamental unit of length is the metre.

Ångstrom, a unit of length equal to 10-8 cm.

A convenient unit of length for measuring atomic sizes is the angstrom, defined as 10−10 metre.