0 a unit used for measuring length, approximately equal to 2.54 centimetres, sometimes shown by the symbol ″: --
2 a unit of measurement of length equal to 1/12 foot or 2.54 centimeters --
4 a unit of measure equal to one-twelfth of a foot or 2.54 centimetres: --
The child placed his/her hands, palms up, on a board and the scanner was situated 6 inches above the pair of open hands.
He was 5 feet 8 inches tall, of fresh complexion, with dark hazel eyes and dark brown hair.
He was 5 feet 8 inches tall and had brown hair with hazel eyes and a fair complexion.
Inch by inch the disturbance rises as if the desert were rising in obedience to some upthrusting force beneath.
Women primarily used vertical looms that produced cloths averaging 21 inches in width.
The cages are six inches long and one inch in diameter.
They were seated at a comfortable viewing distance from the monitor with the microphone approximately one inch in front of their lips.
In places, the text comes to within one-eight of an inch of the bottom of the page and the margins are uniformly narrow.
