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Wat (wie) is furlong - definitie

UNIT OF LENGTH
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furlong         
n.
Forty rods, poles, or perches; eighth of a mile.
furlong         
¦ noun an eighth of a mile, 220 yards.
Origin
OE furlang, from furh 'furrow' + lang 'long' (orig. denoting the length of a furrow in a common field, also used as the equivalent of the Roman stadium, one eighth of a Roman mile).
Furlong         
·adj A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

Wikipedia

Furlong

A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and United States customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to any of 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, 10 chains or approximately 201 metres. It is now mostly confined to use in horse racing, where in many countries it is the standard measurement of race lengths, and agriculture, where it is used to measure rural field lengths and distances.

In the United States, some states use older definitions for surveying purposes, leading to variations in the length of the furlong of two parts per million, or about 0.4 millimetres (164 inch). This variation is too small to have practical consequences in most applications.

Using the international definition of the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, one furlong is 201.168 metres, and five furlongs are about 1 kilometre (1.00584 km exactly).

Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor furlong
1. The winner, by a furlong, was our distinguished political editor.
2. Richard Furlong, for the League, said their costs were 65,000.
3. "Approaching the two–furlong marker Dettori manoeuvred to his right and Mr Berry clipped his heels.
4. "But clearly Paris is still in the lead as the race moves into the final furlong.
5. But Furlong said the government is trying to determine the citizenship status of the suspect.