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The metre or meter is a measure of length. It is the basic unit of length in the metric system an in the International System of Units (SI), used around the world for general and scientific purposes. Historically, the metre was defined by the French Academy of Sciences as the length between two marks on a platinum-iridium bar, which was designed to represent 1⁄10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris. Today, it is defined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures as the distance travelled by light in absolute vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second.

Trivia about meter

  • 1 of these equals 39.97 inches
  • Approximately 1.094 yards
  • In 1960 the wavelength of light from krypton-86 was used to define this measurement, also 39.37"
  • It's the unit of measurement, in terms of number of beats, for a piece of music
  • Also a measure, it's the "measure" of stress patterns in a line of poetry
  • The unit of length called the angstrom is equal to one 10 billionth of one of these units that's a bit more than a yard
  • The arrangement of words in feet in each of a poem's lines; the "Iliad"'s is dactylic
  • This unit of length used more in Europe than the U.S. is about 39.37 inches
  • This unit was originally intended to be 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's circumference

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