standard or imperial measurements are in : inches, feet, yards, pounds, gallons and asuming by nonstandard you mean metric measurements, they are in, millimeters, meters, kilometers, kilograms, liters. .........TADA!
nonstandard and standard measurements...
You can invent any number of nonstandard units, but none of them is "best". It is best to use standard units, that is, the meter.
The standard unit of length is the meter, and any multiple and submultiple such as kilometer and millimeter. Nonstandard units include foot, inch, mile, light-year, parsec, astronomical unit.
A non-standard unit of measurement is a way of reporting measurements in terms of units whose value only a few people may know. Many of the early, non-standard units of measurement, which were based on the human body, were like that. Everybody does not have the same span so saying that a table is 12 spans long is not particularly helpful. Some of these were ;ater standardised: palm = 3 inches, hand = 4 inches (10.16 cm) and so on.
standard or imperial measurements are in : inches, feet, yards, pounds, gallons and asuming by nonstandard you mean metric measurements, they are in, millimeters, meters, kilometers, kilograms, liters. .........TADA!
The prefix for standard is "non-" as in "nonstandard."
nonstandard and standard measurements...
nonstandard and standard measurements...
Och, the wee bairn's greeting. That's English, but nonstandard. In standard English it's: Oh, the little baby is crying. How do people say it in your town?
It was used to measure the strength of a laser. In the 1960s, razor blades were pretty much similar in shape and a Gillette was a non-standard unit for measuring the strength of a laser beam. The measurement comprised the number of laser blades that a laser device could burn through.
You can invent any number of nonstandard units, but none of them is "best". It is best to use standard units, that is, the meter.
visebersal = vice versa?
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No, the vocabulary of Standard English is not more limited than that of nonstandard English. Standard English typically includes a wide range of vocabulary that is widely accepted and used in formal writing and speaking, while nonstandard English may have vocabulary specific to certain regions or social groups.
Quite the contrary: non-standard vocabulary is limited.
The standard measurement of bedding is in inches.