Measuring Instruments

Measuring instruments used to measure the length.

(i) To measure long distances like length and breadth of a park or field we use measuring tapes. It is 50 cm or 100 cm or 250 cm or more in length. It is kept in a box and taken out when needed to measure.

Tailors and some other persons have a small measuring tape to measure the length of cloth and also small distances. Tailors also have a metre rod which is one metre long. It is also used to measure the length of cloth.

(ii) In schools and colleges we use meter-scales of one meter length, 30 cm scales and 15 cm scales.

We use 30 cm scale and 15 cm scale in our daily routine work, to draw line-segments of given measure and to measure the line-segments.

The tapes and meter-rod of meter-scale are used to measure the length and breadth of a room, table, blackboard, etc. and also the length of a piece of string, a piece of cloth, etc.

The small scales of measure 30 cm or 15 cm are used to measure the lengths of line-segments, chalk-pieces, the length of a pencil, etc.

Related Concepts

Units for Measuring Length

Measuring Instruments

To Measure the Length of a Line-segment

Perimeter of a Figure

Unit of Mass or Weight

Examples on Unit of Mass or Weight

Units for The Measurement of Capacity

Examples on Measurement of Capacity

Measurement of Time

Read a Watch or a Clock

Antemeridian (a.m.) or Postmeridian (p.m.)

What Time it is?

Time in Hours and Minutes

24 Hour Clock

Units of Time

Examples Units of Time

Time Duration

Calendar

Reading and Interpreting a Calendar

Calendar Guides us to Know







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