The palm may be either one of two obsolete non-SI units of measurement of length.
In English usage the palm, or small palm, also called handbreadth or handsbreadth, was originally based on the breadth of a human hand without the thumb, and has origins in ancient Egypt. It is distinct from the hand, the breadth of the hand with the thumb, and from the fist, the height of a clenched fist. It is usually taken to be equal to four digits or fingers, or to three inches, which, following the adoption of the international inch in 1959, equals exactly 7.62 centimeters. It is today used only in the field of biblical exegesis, where opinions may vary as to its precise historic length.
In other areas, such as parts of continental Europe, the palm related to the length of the hand, and derived from the Roman great palm.
Symbol/abbreviation: palm
Unit of: LENGTH
LENGTH's base unit: meters (SI Unit)
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In relation to the base unit (meters), 1 Palms = 0.0762 meters.
Conversion table 1 Palms (palm) to all length units | ||
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| 1 palm | = 41.999999999901 agate [typography] (agate) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.12833079029536 alens (aln) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 762000000 angstroms (Å) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 5.0936553871686E-13 astronomical unit (au) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E+16 attometers (am) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 9 barleycorns (bcorn) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76200000000 bicrons (μμ) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.0009469696969697 blocks (bl) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1439971880.8641 bohr radius (Bohr) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.00041118421052632 cable length uk (cbl[UK]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.00034722222222222 cable length us (cbl[US]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 300 calibers (cal) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 300 centiinch (cin) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62 centimeters (cm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.0037878787878788 chains (ch) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.16666666666667 cubits (cbt) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.00762 decameters (dam) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.762 decimeters (dm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 202.67454758932 didot points (didot point) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 4 digits (digit) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1.905E-9 earth circumference (Ec) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1.9822997799179E-10 earth to moon distance (EM d) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.066666666666667 ells (eel) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 18.067500180675 ems (EM) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-20 exameters (Em) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.041666666666667 fathoms (fath) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.25 feet (ft) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76200000000000 femtometers (fm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76200000000000 fermi (fermi) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.66666666666667 finger cloth (finer) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 3.4285714285714 fingerbreadth (fb) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.24259789875836 fods (fod) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.00083333333333333 football field length [US] (fbf[US]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.00037878787878788 furlongs (fur) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-11 gigameters (Gm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.002474025974026 greek plethron (pleth) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.00041189189189189 greek stadion (std) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.75 hands (h) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.000762 hectometers (hm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7620 himetrics (hiMetric) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.03175 horse length (hl) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.040179619985583 hvats (hvat) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 3 inches (in) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-5 kilometers (km) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 2.4692158133506E-21 kiloparsecs (kpc) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 2.9420849420849E-15 light days (ld) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.0620945319741E-14 light hours (lh) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 4.2356864924958E-12 light minutes (lmin) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 9.8056878136662E-17 light months (lm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 2.5416944629753E-10 light seconds (ls) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 8.0541169009618E-18 light years (ly) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 36.285714285714 lines (l) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.37878712121175 links (li) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1.9822997799179E-10 lunar distance (LD) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-8 megameters (Mm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.0762 meters (m) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.254 metric foot (mf) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 3000000 microinches (μin) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76200 micrometers (μm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76200000000 micromicrons (μμm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 4.7348484848485E-5 miles (mi) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76.2 millimeters (mm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 3000 mils (mil) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-6 myriameters (Mym) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1.3333333333333 nails cloth (nail) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76200000 nanometers (nm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1.3714902807775E-5 nautical leagues (Nl) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 4.1144708423326E-5 nautical miles (NM) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.1 paces (pace) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1 palms (palm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 2.4694738185566E-18 parsecs (pc) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.015151515151515 perch (perch) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-17 petameters (Pm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 18.000000014173 picas (p) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 76200000000 picometers (pm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 288.00003628347 pixels (PX) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 4.7625E+33 planck length (pl) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 215.99986393709 points (pt) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.015151515151515 poles (pole) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 1.7142857142857 rack unit (ru) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 18.000002267717 rems (rem) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.015151515151515 rods (rd) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.0021464788732394 roman actus (actus) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.0125 ropes (rope) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-6 scandinavian miles (mil[Scandinavian]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 5.0935828877005E-19 siriometer (sir) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.33333333333333 spans (span) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-14 terameters (Tm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 3000 thou (th) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 4319.972787573 twips (twip) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.087990762124711 varas [Argentina] (vr[Argentina]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.090908908700827 varas [California] (vr[California]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.088194444444444 varas [Latin America] (vr[Latin]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.090928617455431 varas [Mexico] (vr[Mexico]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.091159229572915 varas [Spanish] (vr[Spanish]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.089999645670686 varas [Texas] (vr[Texas]) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.1428571428571E-5 versts (vst) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 760476006083.81 x unit (xu) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 0.083333333333333 yards (yd) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E+22 yoctometers (ym) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-26 yottameters (Ym) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E+19 zeptometers (zm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 7.62E-23 zettameters (Zm) | ⇛ |
| 1 palm | = 3 zolls (zoll) | ⇛ |