| Metre | |
|---|---|
| 👁 Image Historical Internaitional Prototype Metre bar, made o an alloy o platinum an iridium, that wis the staundart frae 1889 tae 1960. | |
| Unit information | |
| Unit seestem | SI base unit |
| Unito | Lenth |
| Seembol | m |
| Unit conversions | |
| 1 m in ... | ... is equal tae ... |
| dm | 10 |
| cm | 100 |
| mm | 1000 |
| km | 0.001 |
| ft | 3.28084 |
| in | 39.3701 |
A metre is the basic unit o lenth in the SI meisurment seestem. Bi the wey o an aerly defineition, it wis 1/10,000,000 (ae ten-milliont) o the lenth atween the Yird's equator an the North Powl. The metre is nou offeicially defined as the lenth licht gangs in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 o a seicont.
Ither aften-uised units o lenth is the millimetre (seembol mm, equal tae 1/1000m), centimetre (seembol cm, equal tae 1/100m) an kilometre (seembol km, equal tae 1000m)
- 1000 mm = 1 m
- 100 cm = 1 m
- 1 km = 1000 m
In the Imperial seestem o meisurment, ae metre is equal tae aboot 39.37 inch, 3.28 fit, or aboot 1.09 yaird.
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