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Anybody who has bought a lovely Christmas tree, only to find you can’t get it through the door will tell you, it’s important to measure things. But tape measures aren’t always practical and are easily ...

The length of an object is the distance from one end to the other. Height measures how tall an object is. You can measure lengths or heights using centimetres and metres. The height of a plant would ...