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Look up: cubit

  1. Cubit
    Lengths: 2 spans, 28 digits. Elbow to middle finger tip. Approx 18 inches.
    Found on http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/measure.h

  2. cubit
    [n] - an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Cubit
    Unit of length equal to 0.4572m.ttle='Length';xiunt='cubit';yiunt='m';mconv=2.1872265966754156;cconv=0.0; See also: Length, Metre, SI Units.
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  4. Cubit
    Cu'bit (kū'bĭt) noun [ Latin cubitum , cubitus ; elbow, ell, cubit, from (because the elbow serves for leaning upon) cubare to lie down, recline; confer Greek ky`biton elbow, ky`ptein to bend, sto...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/199

  5. cubit
    noun an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Cubit
    • (n.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. • (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. cubit
    unit of linear measure used by many ancient and medieval peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 ; it thereafter became ubiquitous in the ... [3 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/166

  8. cubit
    cubit 1. A historic unit of distance frequently mentioned in the Bible and other ancient sources. 2. Etymology: from Latin cubitum, 'the elbow'; related to cubare, 'to lie down, be lying'; that is, 'on which someone lies in a reclining position. An ancient unit of measure based on the forearm from...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  9. Cubit
    The cubit was a Hebrew, Roman and English unit of measurement based upon the length of a man's forearm. The English cubit was reckoned at 18 inches, the Hebrew 22 inches and the Roman 17.5 inches.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. Cubit
    20.6 inches (about 52.3 centimeters).
    Found on http://www.mythome.org/glossaryegypt.htm

  11. Cubit
    :Not to be confused with the quantum computing concept Qubit. For the bone, see Ulna. For other uses, see Cubit (disambiguation). A `cubit` is the first recorded unit of date=January 2011--> and was one of many different standards of measurement used through history. It was originally based o...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit



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