List of human-based units of measure

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This is a list of units of measure based on human body parts or the attributes or abilities of humans. It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based. These units are thus considered to be human scale and anthropocentric.

## Contents

* 1 Area
* 2 Length
* 2.1 Paces
* 2.2 Ells
* 2.3 Cubits
* 2.4 Palms
* 2.5 Inches
* 2.6 Feet
* 3 Loudness
* 4 Mass
* 5 Time
* 6 Volume
* 7 Miscellaneous
* 8 See also

## Area

* Quinaria \- the cross-sectional area of a pipe created from a flat sheet of lead 5 digits wide
* Stremma \- the amount of land a person can plow in a day

## Length

* Ald - the distance between a man's outstretched arms
* Assbā \- Arabic finger
* Beard-second - the length a beard grows in a second
* Condylos \- middle joint of finger
* Cun - width of the human thumb, at the knuckle
* Dactylos \- Ancient Greek finger breadth
* Digit - length of a human finger
* Digitus - Ancient Roman digit
* Etzba \- fingerbreadth
* Fathom \- the distance between the fingertips of a man's outstretched arms
* Finger
* Fistmele \- the measure of a clenched hand with the thumb extended
* Gradus - Ancient Roman step
* Hand - breadth of a male human hand
* League \- the distance a person can walk in an hour (by one definition)
* Lichas \- thumb length
* Orgyia \- Ancient Greek fathom
* Parasang \- the distance an infantryman could march in a predefined period of time
* Pygmē \- distance from elbow to base of fingers
* Sazhen \- Russian fathom
* Shaftment \- width of the fist and outstretched thumb
* Smoot \- Oliver R. Smoot's height in October 1958
* Span - width of a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger
* Spithamē \- Ancient Greek span
* Zeret \- Biblical span

### Paces

* Haploun bēma \- Ancient Greek single pace
* Orgye \- Arabic pace
* Pace - a full stride, from heel to heel
* Passus - the pace step of a single legionary

### Ells

* Ell
* Ell (Scots) \- length of an average person's arm
* Elle \- German ell
* Amah \- Biblical ell

### Cubits

* Arsh \- Arabic cubit
* Cubit \- length of the human forearm
* Macedonian cubit
* Cubitus - Ancient Roman cubit
* Pēchys \- Ancient Greek cubit

### Palms

* Cabda \- Arabic palm
* Chetvert/Piad \- Russian span/palm
* Palaistē/dōron \- Ancient Greek palm
* Palm - breadth of four fingers
* Palmus - Ancient Roman palm
* Tefah/Tefach \- Biblical palm

### Inches

* Duym \- Tatar thumb/inch
* Inch \- length of the thumb (by some definitions)
* Uncia - Roman inch
* Zoll \- German inch

### Feet

* Foot - length of the human foot
* Arabic foot
* Fuß \- German foot
* Russian fut \- Russian foot
* Tatar fut \- Tatar foot
* Klafter \- German foot
* Pes - Roman foot
* Pous \- Greek foot

## Loudness

* Phon
* Sone

## Mass

* Picul \- the weight a person can carry

## Time

* Nimesha \- the time it takes for a person to blink
* Paramanu \- interval of blinking in humans

## Volume

* Choenix \- a man's daily grain ration
* Finger tip unit
* Koku \- the amount of rice needed to feed a person for a year
* Japanese masu - the amount of rice needed to feed a person for a day

## Miscellaneous

* Garn \- unit of measure for symptoms resulting from space adaptation syndrome; equal to complete incapacitation; named for Jake Garn

## See also

* Ancient Mesopotamian units of length
* Anthropometry
* German obsolete units of measurement
* History of measurement
* Persian units of measurement
* Swedish units of measurement
* Units of measurement
* Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution

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