There is no formal definition for shovel ready. The Federal Highway Administration says it doesnât use the phrase. Its preferred term is âready to go,â according to acting administrator Jeff Paniati. That means a state has already done the preliminary work for that project, he says.
A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems equal to 6 feet (1.8288 metres), used especially for measuring the depth of water. There are two yards (6 feet) in an imperial fathom. Originally based on the distance between a man's outstretched arms, the size of a fathom has varied slightly depending on whether it was defined as a thousandth of an (Admiralty) nautical mile or as a multiple of the imperial yard.
You can view more details on each measurement unit: fathoms or metres. The SI base unit for length is the metre. 1 metre is equal to 0.546806649169 fathoms, or 1 metres. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Use this page to learn how to convert between fathoms and metres.