Measurement unit: millipouce

Full name: millipouce

Plural form: millipouces

Category type: length

Scale factor: 2.54E-5




SI unit: metre

The SI base unit for length is the metre.
1 metre is equal to 39370.078740157 millipouce.



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Definition: Millipouce

The SI prefix "milli" represents a factor of 10-3, or in exponential notation, 1E-3.

So 1 millipouce = 10-3 pouces.

The definition of a pouce is as follows:

The pouce is a French "inch" unit. The modern definition from the international standard of units is that 1 inch = 2.54 cm or 1 pouce = 25.4 mm. The word pouce means "thumb" in French. In past history, it was equal to 1/12 pied. Based on the pied de roi, the historical pouce was equal to about 1.066 inches or 2.707 centimeters.


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