What is foot?

The word "foot" in the literal translation fromEnglish into Russian means "foot, foot". It was the basis for the emergence of the name of a game like football, translated - "ball game with your feet." However, in our country, no one so does not call a foot, the word foot is used in a different meaning.

What is foot and in what areas does this term apply?

Definition

A foot is a unit of length.

What is interesting is that in variouscountries measure foot has a different length. Many peoples, historically, have used feet to measure length or distance. Hence, by the way, the name of this unit of measurement. But in different peoples the average indicators of height, weight, length of arms and feet are different. Hence the emergence of these discrepancies. And what parameters of weight and height are taken as the norm, you can read in the article What weight should be at what growth.

A foot is how much?

And yet, what is a foot? As we said above, different nations have different measures. Thus, the boundaries of this unit of measurement range from 25 cm (Roman foot) to 38 cm (Bolkonsky foot).

In 1958, one of the conferences, periodicallyconducted by representatives of English-speaking countries, was devoted, among other things, to the unification of units of measurement. Since then, the average international footage in the system of measurement units is recognized as 30.48 cm in length. Find out about the dimensions of other units, for example, in. In the article How much in inches of centimeters.

In Russia, foot is not a popular measure of length, but in some areas, for example in aviation, it is recognized as a very convenient unit and is constantly used.