An inch is defined as precisely 2 54 centimeters (cm ; there are 100 cm in a meter, 1 cm = 01 m ) 12 inches to a foot, 3 ft to a yard, 5280 ft to a mile, and 6080 ft to a nautical mile The length of a football field is 300 ft or 100 yards
emphasis If someone or something moves inch by inch, they move very slowly and carefully. The car moved forward inch by inch. A small island. to move very slowly in a particular direction, or to make something do this. Unit of measure equal to 1/36 yard and since 1959 defined officially as
a measurement unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2 54 centimeters, abbreviation is in ; (2) to move the printing action of a press or other equipment slowly or in small increments for adjustment
The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall
(noun) A unit of linear measurement in the English system equal to 2 54cm One twelfth of a foot, one thirty-sixth of a yard
A unit of length The inch may have originally been defined as the width of a person's thumb (pressed down) at the base of the nail H Arthur Klein, in The World of Measurement (p 54) quotes a proclamation attributed to King David I of Scotland (about 1150 C E )