international yard

Japanese: international yard(英語表記)internationalyard
international yard

…the base unit of length in the imperial system. Its size previously varied from country to country, but the international yard was adopted by the major standards institutes of the English-speaking world and has been the de facto standard since July 1959. Its size is defined based on the International Metre Prototype and is exactly equal to 0.9144 m, or 91.44 cm. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "international yard" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…ヤード・ポンド法における長さの基本単位。その大きさは従来国によって異なっていたが,英語圏諸国の主要標準機関の協議により〈国際ヤードinternational yard〉が採用され,1959年7月以降,実効上これに統一されている。その大きさは国際メートル原器に基づいて定義され,厳密に0.9144m,すなわち91.44cmに等しい。…

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