How much is 1 inch?
Inches, inches or centimeters? With today's size information, you should inform yourself in advance exactly how big which information really is. The information in meters or centimeters is most common to us Germans, but when you are If you want to buy clothes, you will find inches more and more often and the question arises: How much is 1 inch?
Know how much and what an inch is
- Inch is also known as inches and is a size specification that can be found in clothing, distances or other lengths. It is mainly used in the English-speaking world.
- In Germany we usually calculate with meters, centimeters or millimeters. The abbreviations m, cm, mm or km are common. The word 'meter' comes from the Greek and means 'measure' or 'tool for measuring'. It is an international unit of measurement for length and is a basic unit in the metric system of units. The metric system, as you know it from German orders of magnitude, does not exist in English-speaking countries.
- 'Zoll' comes from the Middle High German word 'zol' and means something like 'broken piece of wood'. You can find remnants of this meaning in the word 'folding rule'.
- Originally, Heinrich I. of England set the width of his thumb as 1 inch (inch). How much it was exactly is no longer known today. One of his successors officially recognized it as an independent length specification in 1234 and comprised the length of three barley grains placed one behind the other.
- 1 inch is indicated with two small parallel lines above the number in front of it and today corresponds to 2.54 cm.
- Other well-known, older units that are sometimes still used are the foot, cubit, hand width, finger width, fathom, step or span.
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How to convert 1 inch on the internet
If you want to know how much 1 inch is, you will find a few options on the Internet to enter your information directly and have it converted into centimeters, millimeters, meters or micrometers.
- Open the Conversion tables the page "din-formate.de" with your internet browser. You can now calculate the value you are looking for using these tables or enter it into a converter on the page.
- To do this, simply click on the field "Online calculator from Inch to other sizes"under the introductory text. You will be redirected to the overview immediately.
- Now look for the right calculator that calculates the inch you want and enter the value there. The calculators work both from inches to the corresponding counter-information and vice versa. For example, you can also convert centimeters to inches.
- Now enter 1 inch into a calculator. You will immediately see how much 1 inch in cm, mm, m, dm etc. is. A diagram on the right-hand side also shows the size ratio graphically for a better idea.
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