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Yard

Yard - Lyrics, Tabs, Biography, Photos, Discography, Events, Videos, News

A yard (abbreviation: yd) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. Its size can vary from system to system. The most commonly used yard today is the international yard which by definition is equal to 0.9144 metre.The yard is used as the standard unit of field length measurement in both the American and Canadian games of football (although Canada has officially adopted the metric system).A corresponding unit of area is the square yard.Yard is also a slang word, used particularly in currency trading, for one billion units of a currency, e.g., a yard of dollars is $1bn, thus a buyer of a billion dollars could say "I'm a buyer of a yard of dollars." Bloomberg.com: Financial Glossary Equivalence to other units of length 1 international yard is equal to: 0.5 fathom (1 fathom is equal to 2 yards) 3 feet (1 foot is a third of a yard) 36 inches 0.9144 metre (1 metre is equal to about 1.0

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