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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.
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.
How many inches in a meter?
1 meter is equivalent to 39.3700787402 inches. Use 39.3700787402 as the factor to convert meters to inches. Below find some popular meters to inches conversion questions:
- How many inches in 2 meters? 2 meters x 39.3700787402 = 78.74015748 number inches
- How many inches in 3 meters? 3 meters x 39.3700787402 = 118.1102362 number inches
- How many inches in 5 meters? 5 meters x 39.3700787402 = 196.8503937 number inches
- How many inches in 10 meters? 10 meters x 39.3700787402 = 393.7007874 number inches
- How many inches in 20 meters? 20 meters x 39.3700787402 = 787.4015748 number inches
- How many inches in 50 meters? 50 meters x 39.3700787402 = 1968.503937 number inches
- How many inches in 100 meters? 100 meters x 39.3700787402 = 3937.007874 number inches
- How many inches in 1000 meters? 1000 meters x 39.3700787402 = 39370.07874 number inches
Meters to Inches Conversion Chart
| Meters | Inches | Meters | Inches | Meters | Inches | Meters | Inches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 39.37007874 | 26 | 1023.622047 | 51 | 2007.874016 | 76 | 2992.125984 |
| 2 | 78.74015748 | 27 | 1062.992126 | 52 | 2047.244094 | 77 | 3031.496063 |
| 3 | 118.1102362 | 28 | 1102.362205 | 53 | 2086.614173 | 78 | 3070.866142 |
| 4 | 157.480315 | 29 | 1141.732283 | 54 | 2125.984252 | 79 | 3110.23622 |
| 5 | 196.8503937 | 30 | 1181.102362 | 55 | 2165.354331 | 80 | 3149.606299 |
| 6 | 236.2204724 | 31 | 1220.472441 | 56 | 2204.724409 | 81 | 3188.976378 |
| 7 | 275.5905512 | 32 | 1259.84252 | 57 | 2244.094488 | 82 | 3228.346457 |
| 8 | 314.9606299 | 33 | 1299.212598 | 58 | 2283.464567 | 83 | 3267.716535 |
| 9 | 354.3307087 | 34 | 1338.582677 | 59 | 2322.834646 | 84 | 3307.086614 |
| 10 | 393.7007874 | 35 | 1377.952756 | 60 | 2362.204724 | 85 | 3346.456693 |
| 11 | 433.0708661 | 36 | 1417.322835 | 61 | 2401.574803 | 86 | 3385.826772 |
| 12 | 472.4409449 | 37 | 1456.692913 | 62 | 2440.944882 | 87 | 3425.19685 |
| 13 | 511.8110236 | 38 | 1496.062992 | 63 | 2480.314961 | 88 | 3464.566929 |
| 14 | 551.1811024 | 39 | 1535.433071 | 64 | 2519.685039 | 89 | 3503.937008 |
| 15 | 590.5511811 | 40 | 1574.80315 | 65 | 2559.055118 | 90 | 3543.307087 |
| 16 | 629.9212598 | 41 | 1614.173228 | 66 | 2598.425197 | 91 | 3582.677165 |
| 17 | 669.2913386 | 42 | 1653.543307 | 67 | 2637.795276 | 92 | 3622.047244 |
| 18 | 708.6614173 | 43 | 1692.913386 | 68 | 2677.165354 | 93 | 3661.417323 |
| 19 | 748.0314961 | 44 | 1732.283465 | 69 | 2716.535433 | 94 | 3700.787402 |
| 20 | 787.4015748 | 45 | 1771.653543 | 70 | 2755.905512 | 95 | 3740.15748 |
| 21 | 826.7716535 | 46 | 1811.023622 | 71 | 2795.275591 | 96 | 3779.527559 |
| 22 | 866.1417323 | 47 | 1850.393701 | 72 | 2834.645669 | 97 | 3818.897638 |
| 23 | 905.511811 | 48 | 1889.76378 | 73 | 2874.015748 | 98 | 3858.267717 |
| 24 | 944.8818898 | 49 | 1929.133858 | 74 | 2913.385827 | 99 | 3897.637795 |
| 25 | 984.2519685 | 50 | 1968.503937 | 75 | 2952.755906 | 100 | 3937.007874 |