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Meter

Definition: A meter, or metre (symbol: m), is the base unit of length and distance in the International System of Units (SI).

3 meters to feet

The meter is defined as the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 of a second. This definition was slightly modified in 2019 to reflect changes in the definition of the second.

History/origin: Originally, in 1793, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole.

This changed in 1889, 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 1960, the meter was again redefined, this time in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86.

The current definition of the meter is effectively the same as the definition that was adopted in 1983, with slight modifications due to the chang