Word

Palm

Variant

palmi

Region
Type

Geometry


Definition

The palm is an obsolete anthropic unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized.


Variations

It

palmiRome

la detta cuppola nelle grossezze necessarie di muro, perche in propor= tione del diametro di palmi 65; esservi la grossezza di palmi 2. di muro paralello in sua eleva= tione, nè risulta circa la trentesima parte del vano; proportione impratticabile à simili forme di fa= briche, s

Biblioteca Estense (Modena Italy), Ms. Campori, 379, γ.B.I.16, fol.32-41.

Date: 1675

Source: Discourse on the Causes of the Structural Defects Daily Observed in the Dome and Vault of the Chiesa Nuova (Santa Maria in Vallicella) in Rome, and the Proposed Remedies for Its Repair (Rome XVII)

Co-occurrence

cuppola (Other, of a kind used for the manufacture of goods)
29%
grossezze
29%
arconi (Other, of a thickness of not more than 10 mm)
14%
altezza (Height)
14%
tamburo (Drums)
14%
inclusivo palmi (Including palms)
14%