One reel -- from eight to twelve minutes -- became the standard length from the year of Robbery, 1903, until Griffith shattered that limit forever with Birth Of A Nation in 1915.

* Average shot length, a standard statistical measure of film editing ( cinemetrics )

Most pop standard and jazz ballads are built from a single, introductory verse ; usually around 16 bars in length, and ending on the dominant ; the chorus or refrain, usually it is 16 or 32 bars long, and in AABA form ( though other forms such as ABAC are not uncommon ).

For example, some people pronounce ( meaning " fish ") as, the " r " is dropped and the vowel begins by dipping much lower in tone than standard speech and then rises, effectively doubling its length.

They then developed an intermediate-power cartridge round, which was accomplished by reducing the power and the length of the standard 7. 92x57 Mauser rifle cartridge to create the 7. 92x33 Kurz ( Short ) cartridge.

It is considered important by film historians as one of the first feature length American films ( most previous films had been less than one hour long ), and it changed the industry's standard in a way still influential today .< ref >

The total length of the line is, being the standard gauge.

The ephemeris time of the 1952 standard leaves a continuing legacy, through its ephemeris second which became closely duplicated in the length of the current standard SI second ( see below: Redefinition of the second ).

In this way, decisions made by the original designers of ephemeris time influenced the length of today's standard SI second, and in turn, this has a continuing influence on the number of leap seconds which have been needed for insertion into current broadcast time scales, to keep them approximately in step with mean solar time.

The reel of film, of maximum length, which usually contained one individual film, became the standard unit of film production and exhibition in this period.

An anthropometric study of 1197 North American adult Caucasian males ( mean age 35. 5 years ) found that a man's foot length was 26. 3 cm with a standard deviation of 1. 2 cm.

Any greater precision depends more on choice of standard than on more careful measurement: the length of the equator in the World Geodetic System WGS-84 is 40, 075, 016. 6856 m which makes the geographical mile 1855. 3248 m, while the International Astronomical Union standard IAU-2000 takes the equator to be 40, 075, 035. 5351 m making the geographical mile 1855. 3257 m, almost a millimetre longer.

More low-level control is possible with the statement, which takes the arguments of a frequency in hertz and a length in clock ticks for the standard internal PC speaker in IBM machines.

Public light buses ( 小巴 ) ( widely referred to as minibuses, or sometimes maxicabs, a de facto share taxi ) run the length and breadth of Hong Kong, through areas which the standard bus lines can not or do not reach as frequently, quickly or directly.

Another difference between native and non-native Hausa is the omission of vowel length in words and change in the standard tone of native Hausa dialects ( ranging from native Fulani and Tuareg Hausa-speakers omitting tone altogether, to Hausa speakers with Gur or Yoruba mother tongues using additional tonal structures similar to those used in their native languages ).

Italian railway system has a length of, of which standard gauge and electrified.

In IEEE 802. 3x-1997, the IEEE Ethernet standard was changed to explicitly allow the use of the 16-bit field after the MAC addresses to be used as a length field or a type field.

This proposal had a degree of flexibility which the European Committee for Banking Standards ( ECBS ) believed would make it unworkable and they produced a " slimmed down " version of the standard which, amongst other things, permitted only upper case letters and required that the IBAN for each country have a fixed length.

The total length of operational ( standard gauge ) track is 274 km, though it was some 550 km at the end of the Second World War.

For n = 1, 2, or 3, it coincides with the standard measure of length, area, or volume.

In 1668, Wilkins proposed using Christopher Wren's suggestion of a pendulum with a half-period of one second to measure a standard length that Christiaan Huygens had observed to be 38 Rhineland or English inches ( 997mm ) in length.

In the 18th century, there were two favoured approaches to the definition of the standard unit of length.

Surgical drainage of the abscess remains part of the standard management of bacterial brain abscesses.

It is still used in metric English-speaking countries ( such as Canada ), and remains the standard unit of classification for air conditioning units manufactured and sold in many non-English-speaking metric countries.

The 12 " single became and remains a standard in discos today.

Many worked to clarify the protocol as it gained popularity, and in 1997 RFC 2131 was released, and remains the standard for IPv4 networks.

In 1974, Technics released the first SL-1200 turntable, which evolved into the SL-1200 MK2 in 1979 — which, as of the early-2010s, remains an industry standard for DJing.

The volume is a standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in many composition classes.

While most of his proposals-" to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics ( including a consumer price index ) in order to facilitate this effort "-are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still " remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom ".

However, the compositional style employed in the opera, with few stand-alone arias, was criticized at the time and remains a barrier to the opera's complete acceptance into the standard repertoire.

Nonetheless, convention continues and " Hittite " remains the standard term used.

The diagnosis component of ICD-9-CM is completely consistent with ICD-9 codes, and remains the data standard for reporting morbidity.

Java remains a de facto standard, controlled through the Java Community Process.

At 33 volumes at some 330, 000 headwords, it remains a standard work of reference to the present day.

Today, the most used edition of the King James Bible, and often identified as plainly the King James Bible or King James Version, especially in the United States, remains the standard text of 1769, edited by Benjamin Blayney and Francis Sawyer Parris at Oxford.

Torvalds remains the final authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.

In Hong Kong and Macau, because of their colonial and linguistic history, the language of education, the media, formal speech and everyday life remains the local Cantonese, although the standard language is now very influential and taught in schools.

It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in use on electronic keyboards due to the network effect of a standard layout and a belief that alternatives fail to provide very significant advantages.

It remains today the standard of writing in French humanities.

If that personal standard remains consistent, there would be few surprises for those familiar with the standard.

A rotary engine is essentially a standard Otto cycle engine, but instead of having a fixed cylinder block with rotating crankshaft as with a conventional radial engine, the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block rotates around it.

This remains the standard for finer-quality dress shoes today.

To this day, OpenGL remains the only real-time 3D graphics standard to be portable across a variety of operating systems.

More than a classic, it remains, after 120 years, a standard study of the war.

Nevertheless " Tocharian " remains the standard term for the language of the Tarim Basin manuscripts.

The alcohol strength remains at the standard 4. 6 %, as with normal packaged VB cans.