kids encyclopedia robot

Span (unit of length) facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Mesures de la main artlibre jnl
Three archaic hand units of measurment:
1: Hand = 4 inches = 10.16 cm
2: Span = 9 inches = 22.86 cm
3: Palm = 3 inches = 7.62 cm

Span is the width of a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the pinky finger.

= 0.2286 m

In Slavic language, the analogue of span is pyad (peti, пядь). It is the width from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger.

= 7 inches
= 0.1778 m

Images for kids

  • Hand Units of Measurement

    Some hand-based measurements, including the great span (4)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Palmo para niños

kids search engine
All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:
Span (unit of length) Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.