ฟาทอม
Sign in to saveA fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems equal to , used especially for measuring the depth of water. The fathom is neither an international standard (SI) unit, nor an internationally accepted non-SI unit. Historically, it was the maritime measure of depth in the English-speaking world but, apart from within the US, charts now use metres.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Customary units of measurement in the United States, Human-based units of measurement and Nautical terminology.
Its subject is documented across 42 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Unit.name
- fathom
- Unit.image
- Regensburg - Altes Rathaus - Masse - 2016.jpg
- Unit.caption
- Standard units in Regensburg: the metal rods are (from left to right) a fathom (klafter), foot (schuch, Modern German Schuh "shoe") and ell (öln, Modern German Elle).
- Unit.standard
- imperial/US units
- Unit.quantity
- length
- Unit.units1
- imperial/US units
- Unit.units2
- SI unit equivalent
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- English unit of measurement
- Said to be same as
- brasse
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- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
- wd:Q6502423 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- conversion to SI unit
- 1.8288
- Commons category
- Fathom (unit of length)
- measured physical quantity
- length
Sources (1)
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On the map
2 mapped locations