Professional Soldiers ® - 18C's Advance Engineering Terms

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Non-Standard Units of Measurement (Handy Engineering Conversions)

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1000 aches: 1 megahurts
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarse power
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond
10 cards: 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
1 million microphones: 1 phone
1 trillion microphones: 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
500 millinaries: 1 seminary
2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbirds
1/2 lavatory: 1 demijohn
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
100 rations: 1 C-ration
10 rations: 1 decoration
1 million billion piccolos: 1 gigolo
10 centipede : 1 millipedes <<< fixed,, thanks to longrange1947
3 dents: 1 trident
3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent
2 monograms: 1 diagram
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
105 dollars = 1 Millicent
1012 antellas = 1 tarantella
109 antics = 1 gigantic
100 tics = 1 hectic
10 aides = 1 decade
1000 female sheep = 1 milieu
2 doctors = 1 paradox
100 Senators: Not 1 decision
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
365.25 days: 1 unicycle
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong (say it out loud)