meters

     

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 meters

  • On a European driver's license, Michael Jordan's height would be 2 of these abbreviated m