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School bus

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-005074

An informal unit of length taken from a typical full-size school bus, roughly 9 to 12 metres or 30 to 40 feet long. It turns up in popular comparisons that express the size of an object, such as an asteroid or a whale, as a number of school buses rather than in metres.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-005074
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMetrology and inspection
TranslationsGerman: school bus; Spanish: autobús escolar; French: school bus
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005074",
  "term": "School bus",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "An informal unit of length taken from a typical full-size school bus, roughly 9 to 12 metres or 30 to 40 feet long. It turns up in popular comparisons that express the size of an object, such as an asteroid or a whale, as a number of school buses rather than in metres.",
  "subject": "Metrology and inspection",
  "translations": {
    "de": "school bus",
    "es": "autobús escolar",
    "fr": "school bus"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/school-bus/"
}

Record 5,485 of 7,291 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.