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Meanings of distance unit in English

Russian
меры длины
Portuguese
unidade de comprimento
Spanish
unidades de longitud
Catalan
unitat de longitud

Way of measuring length or distance.

        меры длины
        Usage of distance unit in English
        1
        A quick note about the units - there are no distance units.
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        2
        With very large things it's often useful to use very large distance units.
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        3
        Let's go over the three most common distance units in astronomy.
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        4
        Here, the distance units are not meters.
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        5
        I am going to measure the gravitational field (g) using some arbitrary distance units (not meters).
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        6
        Next I will measure the period of a pendulum and record the length in these same non-meter distance units.
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        7
        Here is a plot of radiation pressure as a function of distance squared (in distance units of A.U.
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