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OCR: The Main Window Engineering Assistant's conversion utility is divided into categories (i.e. acceleration, temperature, length, weight, etc.). Within each of these categories, are defined the units of the category. For instance, the category "temperature" would contain the units Farenheit, Celsius, Rankine, and Kelvin. Each category has a "base" unit which relates all the units within that category. Although Engineering Assistant already contains an extensive database of categories and conversion units, you can add new categories and units of your own. For instance, you can define a new length unit called "grid" in the "length" category. Once defined as a unit of length, a unit of "grid" can be converted to and from the units of feet, inches, metres, yards, or any other measurement of lengt ...