twip | 1 twp | 2 twp | 3 twp | 4 twp | 5 twp | 6 twp | 7 twp | 8 twp | 9 twp | 10 twp | 11 twp | 12 twp | 13 twp | 14 twp | 15 twp | 16 twp | 17 twp | 18 twp | 19 twp | 20 twp | 21 twp | 22 twp | 23 twp | 24 twp | 25 twp | 26 twp | 27 twp | 28 twp | 29 twp | 30 twp | 31 twp | 32 twp | 33 twp | 34 twp | 35 twp | 36 twp | 37 twp | 38 twp | 39 twp | 40 twp | 41 twp | 42 twp | 43 twp | 44 twp | 45 twp | 46 twp | 47 twp | 48 twp | 49 twp | 50 twp | 51 twp | 52 twp | 53 twp | 54 twp | 55 twp | 56 twp | 57 twp | 58 twp | 59 twp | 60 twp | 61 twp | 62 twp | 63 twp | 64 twp | 65 twp | 66 twp | 67 twp | 68 twp | 69 twp | 70 twp | 71 twp | 72 twp | 73 twp | 74 twp | 75 twp | 76 twp | 77 twp | 78 twp | 79 twp | 80 twp | 81 twp | 82 twp | 83 twp | 84 twp | 85 twp | 86 twp | 87 twp | 88 twp | 89 twp | 90 twp | 91 twp | 92 twp | 93 twp | 94 twp | 95 twp | 96 twp | 97 twp | 98 twp | 99 twp | 100 twp |
barleycorn | 0.0020849 barleycorn | 0.0041697 barleycorn | 0.0062546 barleycorn | 0.0083395 barleycorn | 0.0104243 barleycorn | 0.0125092 barleycorn | 0.0145941 barleycorn | 0.0166790 barleycorn | 0.0187638 barleycorn | 0.0208487 barleycorn | 0.0229336 barleycorn | 0.0250184 barleycorn | 0.0271033 barleycorn | 0.0291882 barleycorn | 0.0312730 barleycorn | 0.0333579 barleycorn | 0.0354428 barleycorn | 0.0375277 barleycorn | 0.0396125 barleycorn | 0.0416974 barleycorn | 0.0437823 barleycorn | 0.0458671 barleycorn | 0.0479520 barleycorn | 0.0500369 barleycorn | 0.0521217 barleycorn | 0.0542066 barleycorn | 0.0562915 barleycorn | 0.0583764 barleycorn | 0.0604612 barleycorn | 0.0625461 barleycorn | 0.0646310 barleycorn | 0.0667158 barleycorn | 0.0688007 barleycorn | 0.0708856 barleycorn | 0.0729704 barleycorn | 0.0750553 barleycorn | 0.0771402 barleycorn | 0.0792251 barleycorn | 0.0813099 barleycorn | 0.0833948 barleycorn | 0.0854797 barleycorn | 0.0875645 barleycorn | 0.0896494 barleycorn | 0.0917343 barleycorn | 0.0938191 barleycorn | 0.0959040 barleycorn | 0.0979889 barleycorn | 0.1000738 barleycorn | 0.1021586 barleycorn | 0.1042435 barleycorn | 0.1063284 barleycorn | 0.1084132 barleycorn | 0.1104981 barleycorn | 0.1125830 barleycorn | 0.1146678 barleycorn | 0.1167527 barleycorn | 0.1188376 barleycorn | 0.1209225 barleycorn | 0.1230073 barleycorn | 0.1250922 barleycorn | 0.1271771 barleycorn | 0.1292619 barleycorn | 0.1313468 barleycorn | 0.1334317 barleycorn | 0.1355165 barleycorn | 0.1376014 barleycorn | 0.1396863 barleycorn | 0.1417712 barleycorn | 0.1438560 barleycorn | 0.1459409 barleycorn | 0.1480258 barleycorn | 0.1501106 barleycorn | 0.1521955 barleycorn | 0.1542804 barleycorn | 0.1563652 barleycorn | 0.1584501 barleycorn | 0.1605350 barleycorn | 0.1626199 barleycorn | 0.1647047 barleycorn | 0.1667896 barleycorn | 0.1688745 barleycorn | 0.1709593 barleycorn | 0.1730442 barleycorn | 0.1751291 barleycorn | 0.1772139 barleycorn | 0.1792988 barleycorn | 0.1813837 barleycorn | 0.1834686 barleycorn | 0.1855534 barleycorn | 0.1876383 barleycorn | 0.1897232 barleycorn | 0.1918080 barleycorn | 0.1938929 barleycorn | 0.1959778 barleycorn | 0.1980626 barleycorn | 0.2001475 barleycorn | 0.2022324 barleycorn | 0.2043173 barleycorn | 0.2064021 barleycorn | 0.2084870 barleycorn |
A twip (abbreviating "twentieth of a point", "twentieth of an inch point", or "twentieth of an Imperial point"[citation needed]) is a typographical measurement, defined as 1/20 of a typographical point. One twip is 1/1440 inch or 17.639 µm.
Name of unit | Symbol | Definition | Relation to SI units | Unit System |
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twip | twp | ≡ 1⁄1440 in | = 1.7638×10−5 m | Imperial/US |
twips | barleycorns | twips | barleycorns |
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1 | ≈ 0.0020848699763593 | 4 | ≈ 0.0083394799054374 |
1.5 | ≈ 0.003127304964539 | 4.5 | ≈ 0.009381914893617 |
2 | ≈ 0.0041697399527187 | 5 | ≈ 0.010424349881797 |
2.5 | ≈ 0.0052121749408983 | 5.5 | ≈ 0.011466784869976 |
3 | ≈ 0.006254609929078 | 6 | ≈ 0.012509219858156 |
The barleycorn is a small English unit of length equal to 1⁄3 of an inch (i.e., close to 0.8467 cm) still used in Great Britain and Ireland as a determiner of shoe sizes.
Name of unit | Symbol | Definition | Relation to SI units | Unit System |
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barleycorn | = 1⁄3 in | ≈ 8.46×10−3 m | Imperial/US |
barleycorns | twips | barleycorns | twips |
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1 | ≈ 479.64621839211 | 4 | ≈ 1918.5848735684 |
1.5 | ≈ 719.46932758816 | 4.5 | ≈ 2158.4079827645 |
2 | ≈ 959.29243678422 | 5 | ≈ 2398.2310919605 |
2.5 | ≈ 1199.1155459803 | 5.5 | ≈ 2638.0542011566 |
3 | ≈ 1438.9386551763 | 6 | ≈ 2877.8773103526 |
twips | barleycorns |
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1 | ≈ 0.0020849 |
479.6462184 | ≈ 1 |
Symbol | Definition |
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≡ | exactly equal |
≈ | approximately equal to |
= | equal to |
digits | indicates that digits repeat infinitely (e.g. 8.294 369 corresponds to 8.294 369 369 369 369 …) |