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Details of Unit: meter

Unit Name meter (Also spelled as 'metre')
Unit Symbolm
Defining Expression 1.0 m
Simplified Expression 1.0 m
DescriptionSI base unit for Linear Distance
Unit CatagorySI Base
Unit Reference Information

Wikipedia Reference

The metre, or meter (US), is a measure of length. It is the basic unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units (SI), used around the world for general and scientific purposes. The symbol for metre is m. Historically, the metre was defined by the French Academy of Sciences as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris. Now, it is defined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures as the distance travelled by light in absolute vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. This is approximately the distance from floor to hip bone on the average barefoot man.

Decimal multiples and submultiples of the metre, such as kilometre (1000 metres) and centimetre (1/100 metre), are indicated by adding SI prefixes to metre


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