How Natural Gas Works. Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that we use for heating, cooking, electricity production, transportation, and as an industrial feedstock. In 2012, it made up 30 percent of the U.S. energy mix, and it continues to be a readily available domestic resource as a result of recent discoveries and advances in extraction technology. [1]
â¢ METRICAL FOOT (noun). The noun METRICAL FOOT has 1 sense: 1. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm. Familiarity information: METRICAL FOOT used as a noun is very rare.
Foot is an imperial and US customary length unit and defined as 0.3048 meters (30.48 centimeters or 12 inches). There are 5280 feet in a mile (US and UK), 6076 feet in a US nautical mile and 6080 feet in a UK nautical mile. The abbreviation is ft.