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Fact about Yard
Basic facts: A yard [symbol: yd] is a unit of length in both the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement. A yard has been defined as exactly 0.9144 meters since 1959, It is also equivalent to 3 feet, or 36 inches.
History: The origin of the yard is not quite certain. A yard is an English unit [predecessor of imperial units] the term “yard” derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd, etc., which was used for staves, branches, and measuring rods. some suggest that it initially derived from the girth of a person’s waist, while others consider it originated as a cubic measure.
Use: The yard is generally used in field-length measurement for specific sports like American and Canadian football, and association football [soccer]. The yard sometimes is used in golf fairway measurements and it is also used in cricket pitch dimensions. In the United Kingdom as well as the United States, the yard is often used when referring to distance. In the United Kingdom, it is also a legal condition that road signs marking shorter distances are displayed in yards.
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 yard?
1 yard is equivalent to 0.9144 meters. Use 0.9144 as the factor to convert yards to meters. Below find some popular yards to meters conversion questions:
- How many meters in 2 yards? 2 yards x 0.9144 = 1.8288 number meters
- How many meters in 3 yards? 3 yards x 0.9144 = 2.7432 number meters
- How many meters in 5 yards? 5 yards x 0.9144 = 4.572 number meters
- How many meters in 10 yards? 10 yards x 0.9144 = 9.144 number meters
- How many meters in 20 yards? 20 yards x 0.9144 = 18.288 number meters
- How many meters in 50 yards? 50 yards x 0.9144 = 45.72 number meters
- How many meters in 100 yards? 100 yards x 0.9144 = 91.44 number meters
- How many meters in 1000 yards? 1000 yards x 0.9144 = 914.4 number meters
Yards to Meters Conversion Chart
| Yards | Meters | Yards | Meters | Yards | Meters | Yards | Meters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.9144 | 26 | 23.7744 | 51 | 46.6344 | 76 | 69.4944 |
| 2 | 1.8288 | 27 | 24.6888 | 52 | 47.5488 | 77 | 70.4088 |
| 3 | 2.7432 | 28 | 25.6032 | 53 | 48.4632 | 78 | 71.3232 |
| 4 | 3.6576 | 29 | 26.5176 | 54 | 49.3776 | 79 | 72.2376 |
| 5 | 4.572 | 30 | 27.432 | 55 | 50.292 | 80 | 73.152 |
| 6 | 5.4864 | 31 | 28.3464 | 56 | 51.2064 | 81 | 74.0664 |
| 7 | 6.4008 | 32 | 29.2608 | 57 | 52.1208 | 82 | 74.9808 |
| 8 | 7.3152 | 33 | 30.1752 | 58 | 53.0352 | 83 | 75.8952 |
| 9 | 8.2296 | 34 | 31.0896 | 59 | 53.9496 | 84 | 76.8096 |
| 10 | 9.144 | 35 | 32.004 | 60 | 54.864 | 85 | 77.724 |
| 11 | 10.0584 | 36 | 32.9184 | 61 | 55.7784 | 86 | 78.6384 |
| 12 | 10.9728 | 37 | 33.8328 | 62 | 56.6928 | 87 | 79.5528 |
| 13 | 11.8872 | 38 | 34.7472 | 63 | 57.6072 | 88 | 80.4672 |
| 14 | 12.8016 | 39 | 35.6616 | 64 | 58.5216 | 89 | 81.3816 |
| 15 | 13.716 | 40 | 36.576 | 65 | 59.436 | 90 | 82.296 |
| 16 | 14.6304 | 41 | 37.4904 | 66 | 60.3504 | 91 | 83.2104 |
| 17 | 15.5448 | 42 | 38.4048 | 67 | 61.2648 | 92 | 84.1248 |
| 18 | 16.4592 | 43 | 39.3192 | 68 | 62.1792 | 93 | 85.0392 |
| 19 | 17.3736 | 44 | 40.2336 | 69 | 63.0936 | 94 | 85.9536 |
| 20 | 18.288 | 45 | 41.148 | 70 | 64.008 | 95 | 86.868 |
| 21 | 19.2024 | 46 | 42.0624 | 71 | 64.9224 | 96 | 87.7824 |
| 22 | 20.1168 | 47 | 42.9768 | 72 | 65.8368 | 97 | 88.6968 |
| 23 | 21.0312 | 48 | 43.8912 | 73 | 66.7512 | 98 | 89.6112 |
| 24 | 21.9456 | 49 | 44.8056 | 74 | 67.6656 | 99 | 90.5256 |
| 25 | 22.86 | 50 | 45.72 | 75 | 68.58 | 100 | 914.4 |