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In the physical sciences and engineering, when one speaks of " units of length ", the word " length " is synonymous with " distance ".
Units of length may be based on lengths of human body parts, the distance travelled in a number of paces, the distance between landmarks or places on the Earth, or arbitrarily on the length of some fixed object.
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