What is a meter?

Question

Its for homework

Answer 1

Its the SI (System International) unit for length. It is equivalent to 100 cm or 39.3700 inches.

Answer 2

What kind of meter? Do you mean in distance?
The meter is a measure of length. It is the basic unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units (SI), used around the world for general and scientific purposes.
Originally the meter 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.
But 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.

A lot of websites with info on the meter and metric system - wikipedia is pretty good (if you don't know how to do research online maybe someone could help you).

Answer 3

Defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.

A simpler definition is the 100 times the cube root of the volume of one gram of water..at STP.

I know that sounds hard but It's a fancy way of saying that one gram of water has a volume of 1 cubic centimeter or that each side would measure 1cm x 1cm x 1cm. Each is 100th of a meter.

If your homework is for remedial math or something like that... use the following...

1000 Millimeters
100 Centimeter
1000th of a Kilometer
etc etc...

Finally if your course of study is geography the definition is one ten-millionth of the length of the earth's meridian along a quadrant (one fourth the circumference of the earth).

Have a nice day!

Answer 4

The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. It is the basic unit of length in the metric system and 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.

The symbol for metre is m. Decimal multiples and submultiples of the metre, such as kilometre (1000 metres) and centimetre (1/100 metre), are indicated by adding SI prefixes to metre (see table below).

1 metre = International units
1 m 1×10−3 km
1000 mm 10×109 Å
6.685×10−12 AU 105.7×10−18 ly
US customary / Imperial units
39.37 in 3.281 ft
1.094 yd 621.371×10−6 mi

Answer 5

The meter is a measure of length. It is the basic unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units (SI), used around the world for general and scientific purposes.The symbol for metre is m.

Answer 6

1 meter is a measurement
1 meter = 100cm

Answer 7

1 meter = 3.2808399 feet

Answer 8

Since it's for homework, I would suggest looking it up online. I'll tell you that it's a unit of measurment; that should get you started :-)

Answer 9

1.093613 Yards
3.28084 Feet

Many other ways to describe it is at:
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/units/length/length.meter.en.html

Answer 10

one meter = 39.37 inches
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