Metre
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This article is about the unit of length. For other uses of "metre" or "meter", see meter (disambiguation).
1 metre =
SI units
100 cm
1000 mm
US customary / Imperial units
3.2808 ft
39.370 in
The metre (meter in the US), symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole (at sea level), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology. Since 1983, it has been defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 ⁄ 299,792,458 of a second.[1]