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horizontal units ... Since troughs can give a 180 degree variation of the dip of 
foresets, false ... Tabular cross-bedding is formed mainly by migration of large-
scale, ... are only a few millimeters thick, the term cross-lamination is used, rather 
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from the 17th .... Term used to hail a boat or a ship, as "Boat ahoy!" Ahull: 1. lying 
... Most marine GPS units have an Anchor Watch alarm capability. Anchorage: A 
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may have come from the Merchant Marine, as did many other film terms. .... One 
of several ways to measure and compare Incident Light levels. ..... Mostly they do. [DOC] [TLE] British-American System of Units  The Physics Hypertextbook [PAR] The word fathom has its roots in the Old English word for embracing arms ... A 
standard fathom is 6 feet long. rod: A rod is a measure of length equal to ... It is 
still used for marine and aerial navigation  and for some reason NASA ..... Take 
the meter [m] and cube it [m3]. ... Some volume units share names with mass 
units. [DOC] [TLE] Tools of the Oceanographer: Measuring Equipment - MarineBio.net [PAR] TOOLS OF THE OCEANOGRAPHER: Equipment: Measuring tools ... read out 
temperature sensors are most often used to determine temperature at depth... [DOC] [TLE] Units: F - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [PAR] The fall was used mostly in Scotland, where its traditional length was 6 Scots ells 
or ... In fact, the length of the foot may have been defined, early in the twelfth ... 
Today the fathom is used almost exclusively at sea, measuring water depth, the ... 
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at sea: a unit of ... MCF: a traditional symbol for 1000 (not one million) cubic feet, 
a unit of... [DOC] [TLE] Fathom | Word Fathom at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat ... [PAR] Fathom definition, A measure of length equal to 6 feet. ... used principally in the 
measurement and specification of marine depths. ... term was used for any of 
several units of length varying around 55+2 feet. ... A fathom is 1.83 meter or 6 
feet. ... to spell, mostly because she wasn't familiar with either the word or its 
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ADJOINER  An owner of land which touches the land of another, his name 
being ... ADJUSTMENT  State or condition of an instrument which has its parts 
in ...... FATHOM - 1) A unit of distance equivalent to 6 feet, used primarily in 
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That part of a line between its ends or a loop; as in: Tie

Question: This 6-foot unit is used mainly in terms of marine depth, & gave its name to a "meter" that measures depth
Answer: fathom