, a measure containing one-tenth of a line. A line is one-tenth of a digit, and a digit is one-tenth of a foot, and a philosophical foot, one-third of a pendulum, whose diadromes, or vibrations, in the latitude of 45 degrees, are each equal to one second of time, or one-sixtieth of a minute.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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