java中yard什么意思,yard是什么意思

1. an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)

2. a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

3. the enclosed land around a house or other building

e.g.it was a small house with almost no yard

4. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines

5. a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)

e.g.they opened a repair yard on the edge of town

6. a tract of land where logs are accumulated

7. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

8. a unit of length equal to 3 feet

defined as 91.44 centimeters

originally taken to be the average length of a stride

Synonym: pace

9. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100