140.5 inches to feet

140.5 inches equals 11.70833 feet. To convert inches to feet, divide the number of inches by 12.

How to convert 140.5 inches to feet?

Inch

The inch is a unit of length in the Imperial System and the US Customary Units. It is commonly used in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The standard symbol of the inch is in. It is also denoted by the double prime symbol (″).

Inch is often represented using dyadic fractions and is divided into 2, 4, 8, and 16 parts. For example, 7.25 inches is represented as 7 ¼ inches. The current value of the inch took effect in 1959 after the International Yard and Pound Agreement signed by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This agreement defined the international yard value as exactly 0.9144 meters. This consequently made the inch value exactly 0.0254 meters, as one yard was equal to 36 inches.

Inch is often used to measure the height of a person. Apart from height measurement, the inch also has other common uses such as measuring electronic components, furniture dimensions, shoe sizes, packaging boxes, etc.

Foot

Foot is a unit of length in the British Imperial System and the United States Customary Unit System. The standard symbol of the foot is ft. It is also denoted by a prime symbol (′).

The unit's name indicates and is believed to be based on the human foot. Since ancient times, the foot has been widely used in European countries and the United States. The length of the foot was different from country to country. Different rulers defined their feet, making the previous one obsolete. This created great confusion for international and intercontinental trade. To overcome this confusion of variation in the unit values, seven countries, including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, and the United Kingdom, signed the International Yard and Pound Agreement in 1959 that defined the yard value as exactly 0.9144 meters. This consequently made the value of the international foot exactly 0.3048 meters.

The foot is used to measure the lengths of objects and small distances. The square foot, the unit derived from the foot, is used to measure the area of a two-dimensional space. To distinguish area and length measurements, the term linear foot is used to indicate the length of the material in feet instead of the area. In aviation, the altitude of flight levels is commonly used in hundred-foot increments. For example, a flight level 320 indicates an altitude of 32000 feet. The dimensions of shipping containers are measured in feet.