Convert Inches To Meters

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Facts about Inch

Basic facts: An inch is a unit of length in the United States customary and British imperial systems of measurement [symbol: in]. It is equivalent to 1/36 yard or 1/12 of a foot, meaning there are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot. In 1959, an inch was defined to be equal to exactly 25.4 millimeters.

History: The word “inch” is derived from the Roman uncia “twelfth”, the term “inch” is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually viewed as deriving from the width of the human thumb, where the length was obtained from averaging the width of 3 thumbs: a small, a medium, and a large one.

In the past, there have been a number of various standards for the inch with the present definition being based on the international yard. One of the earlier definitions of the inch was based on barleycorns [where an inch was equivalent to the length of 3 grains of dry, round barley placed end-to-end].

Use: The inch is mainly used in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It is also sometimes used in Japan and in other countries as well, in relation to electronic parts, such as the size of display screens.

Facts about Meter

Basic facts: In Commonwealth spelling – metre, or in American spelling – meter. Metre [symbol: m] comes from the French unit mètre and from the Greek noun “measure”. Meter is the base unit of length and distance in SI [the International System of Units]. It is defined as the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 of a second. The existing definition was adopted in 1983 and changed slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length.

History: Initially, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole, in 1793. This changed when the international prototype metre was established as the length of a prototype meter bar [made of an alloy of 90% platinum and 10% iridium] measured at the melting point of ice, in 1793. The meter was again redefined, this time in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86, In 1960. The existing definition of the meter is actually the same as the definition that was adopted in 1983, with slight changes due to the modification in the definition of the second.

Use: The meter is used worldwide (being the SI unit of length) in many applications such as measuring distance, height, length, width, etc. The US is one significant exception in that it mainly uses US customary units like yards, inches, feet, and miles rather than meters in daily use.

How many meters in a inch? 

1 inch is equivalent to 0.0254 meters. Use 0.0254 as the factor to convert inches to meters. Below find some popular inches to meters conversion questions:

• How many meters in 2 inches?  2 inches x 0.0254 = 0.0508 number meters
• How many meters in 3 inches?  3 inches x 0.0254 = 0.0762 number meters
• How many meters in 5 inches?  5 inches x 0.0254 = 0.127 number meters
• How many meters in 10 inches? 10 inches x 0.0254 = 0.254 number meters
• How many meters in 20 inches? 20 inches x 0.0254 = 0.508 number meters
• How many meters in 50 inches? 50 inches x 0.0254 = 1.27 number meters
• How many meters in 100 inches? 100 inches x 0.0254 = 2.54 number meters
• How many meters in 1000 inches? 1000 inches x 0.0254 = 25.4 number meters

Inches to Meters Conversion Chart

Inches	Meters	Inches	Meters	Inches	Meters	Inches	Meters
1	0.0254	26	0.6604	51	1.2954	76	1.9304
2	0.0508	27	0.6858	52	1.3208	77	1.9558
3	0.0762	28	0.7112	53	1.3462	78	1.9812
4	0.1016	29	0.7366	54	1.3716	79	2.0066
5	0.127	30	0.762	55	1.397	80	2.032
6	0.1524	31	0.7874	56	1.4224	81	2.0574
7	0.1778	32	0.8128	57	1.4478	82	2.0828
8	0.2032	33	0.8382	58	1.4732	83	2.1082
9	0.2286	34	0.8636	59	1.4986	84	2.1336
10	0.254	35	0.889	60	1.524	85	2.159
11	0.2794	36	0.9144	61	1.5494	86	2.1844
12	0.3048	37	0.9398	62	1.5748	87	2.2098
13	0.3302	38	0.9652	63	1.6002	88	2.2352
14	0.3556	39	0.9906	64	1.6256	89	2.2606
15	0.381	40	1.016	65	1.651	90	2.286
16	0.4064	41	1.0414	66	1.6764	91	2.3114
17	0.4318	42	1.0668	67	1.7018	92	2.3368
18	0.4572	43	1.0922	68	1.7272	93	2.3622
19	0.4826	44	1.1176	69	1.7526	94	2.3876
20	0.508	45	1.143	70	1.778	95	2.413
21	0.5334	46	1.1684	71	1.8034	96	2.4384
22	0.5588	47	1.1938	72	1.8288	97	2.4638
23	0.5842	48	1.2192	73	1.8542	98	2.4892
24	0.6096	49	1.2446	74	1.8796	99	2.5146
25	0.635	50	1.27	75	1.905	100	2.54

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