Meter

A Meter is a SI Base Unit that is used to measure length.

• AKA: Metre, m.
• Example(s)
  • 1 m = 100 cm,
  • 1 m = 1000 mm,
  • 1 m = 0.001 km,
  • 1 m = 1.0936 yd,
  • 1 m = 3.2808 ft,
  • 1 m = 39.370 in.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Yard,
  • Feet,
  • Inch.
• See: Metric System, Base Unit of Mesurement, International System of Units (SI), Imperial Units, US Customary Units, International Bureau of Weights And Measures, Units of Measurement, The Earth, Nanometer.

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References

2018

• (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre Retrieved:2018-12-28.
  • The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m". The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in second .

    The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole – as a result the Earth's circumference is approximately 40,000 km today. In 1799, it was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar (the actual bar used was changed in 1889). In 1960, the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. In 1983, the current definition was adopted.

    The imperial inch is defined as 0.0254 metres (2.54 centimetres or 25.4 millimetres). One metre is about inches longer than a yard, i.e. about inches.

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