Length conversion table

 Table of Contents:

• Length conversion table
• Length conversion chart
• Inch definition
• Feet definition
• Meter definition
• Imperial US measurements system. US measurement system
• Metric measurement system

length converter length converter is a tool that permits rapid transformation into length unit that is imperial, as well as the length unit that is metric. It's more than that. It's also fitted with twenty length measurements:

• Anstrom (A)
• Picometers (pm)
• Nanometers (nm)
• Micrometers (mm)
• millimeters (mm)
• centimeters (cm)
• decimeters (dm)
• meters (m)
• Meters, centimeters, and meters
• kilometers (km)

• 1000ths of an inch (mil /thou)
• inches (in)
• feet (ft)
• feet and inches
• yards (yd)
• miles (mi)

• mile of nautical (nmi)
• Sun radii (R)
• Light years (ly)
• Units of Astronomy (au)
• parsecs (pc)

It's a length conversion calculator that operates by entering units (up up to eleven for the same calculation) within the calculator. The tool calculates the length converter then returns your outcomes for each unit in real-time. Choose the unit you'd prefer to perform an extension to another unit, other than those in the set of defaults offered by Omni. Omni team. In the event that you're trying convert different units of area another option is to use the

Length conversion table

To learn what conversion factors can be applied to the most well-known length units, read this conversion table for length units:

millimeter (mm)	centimeter (cm)	Meter (m)	kilometer (km)	inch (in)	feet or feet (ft)	yard (yd)	mile (mi)	(nmi) is the nautical mile. (nmi)
1 millimeter (mm)	1	0.1	0.001	0.000001	0.03937	0.003281	0.0010936	0.0000006214	0.00000054
One centimeter (cm)	10	1	0.01	0.00001	0.3937	0.03281	0.010936	0.000006214	0.0000054
1 Meter (m)	1000	100	1	0.001	39.37	3.281	1.0936	0.0006214	0.00054
1 kilometer (km)	1000000	100000	1000	1	39370	3281	1093.6	0.6214	0.54
1 " (in)	25.4	2.54	0.0254	0.0000254	1	0.08333	0.02778	0.000015783	0.000013715
1 foot equals feet (ft)	304.8	30.48	0.3048	0.0003048	12	1	0.33333	0.0001894	0.00016458
1 yard (yd)	914.4	91.44	0.9144	0.0009144	36	3	1	0.0005682	0.0004937
1 . Mile (mi)	1609344	160934	1609.3	1.6093	63360	5280	1760	1	0.869
1.25 nautical miles (nmi)	1852000	185200	1852	1.852	72913	6076	2025.4	1.1508	1

We've decided on a rounding of a certain number of conversion variables to put them in this table. So, some values may not be exact however they do have some level of accuracy.

Length conversion chart

In case you're struggling to determine how you can quickly switch between different units within one system, take a look at these two simple length conversion charts:

1. It is a measurement technique. is the measurement system metric

For example:

• 6 km = 6 * 1000 = 6000 m
• 180 cm = 180 / 100 = 1.8 m

1. Measurements in Imperial US measure system. US measure system

For instance:

• 5 yd = 5 * 3 = 15 ft
• 144 in = 144 / 12 = 12 ft

We've also put together an index of the most frequently requested length conversions. The most frequently requested ones you'll see are:

1. meters to feetor feet-to-meters

If you're trying to figure out the number of feet in a meter, here you're:

• 1 Meter 3.281 feet which is equal to three feet, 3 1/4 inches and 3 1/2 inches
• 1 foot equals 0.3048 Meter

1. inch to cmor inches in centimeters

Find out the number of centimeters per inch.

• One centimeter 0.3937 inches
• 1 inch equals 2.54 centimeters

1. inches to feetor inches to feet

To convert between feet and inches, make use of:

• 1 foot equals 12 inches
• 1 . 0.08333 feet 1/12th of one inch

1. yards to feetYards to feet

How many square feet can be accommodated in your yard? Three!

• 1 yard = 3 feet
• 1 foot 0.3333 yards, 1/3 of one yard

1. feet to milesor miles to miles

Have you ever considered the number of feet that make up the mile?

• 1 foot 0.00018939 mile
• 1 yard = 5280 feet

Inch definition

The inch (abbreviate which means "or ") is a measure of length that is employed in the Imperial or the US and the US metric systems. The word comes from several definitions, including the dimensions of the human thumb. In several different languages e.g. Norwegian, Afrikaans, Italian or French the word "inch" originates from the term thumb, and at times it's the same idea. From the 14th century onwards"inches" were given in the reign of the King Edward I. England by the definition of three barley grains that were dry and round and placed between the edges of the in-length. The definition of an inch changed through the centuries However, by the 1950's the adoption of an international standard adopted. Since the 1950's, an inch has been precisely 2.54 centimeters.

1 in = 2.54 cm

One inch is also equivalent to one-third of one yard. 1/12 of one foot or 1/63360 of a mile.

On a daily basis, inches are widely used across countries such as those of the US, UK, Canada and many other countries which were once member of the British Empire. Along with length width and width, they are measured in various sizes, and also measured using units that are that are derived from inches (e.g. the size of the shoe).

What's the measurement in inches? Not just in the US but, across the globe?

• Screen dimensions of smartphones, monitors TVs, and even monitors (specifically dimensions of the angles of rectangle screens)
• Resolution of screen PPI (pixels per inch)
• dimensions of tires dimensions of tire e.g. automobile wheels,
• diverse equipment and pipes of various dimensions
• Certain sports equipments use the measurement in inches. e.g. to shoot archery.
• in the science field, e.g. Acoustics in science, e.g. Acoustics microphones, and the dimensions of loudspeakers

The"International inch" or "International inch" refers to: International inch is the equivalent to:

• 10,000 10ths of 10ths of
• 1,000 thou/mil
• 100 points or tear
• 72 PostScript points
• 6 computer picas
• 3 barleycorns
• 2.54 centimeters exactly
• 0.999998 US Survey inches
• 1/3 of 0.333 palms
• 1/4, or 0.25 hands
• 1/12 = 0.08333 feet
• 1/36 or 0.02777 yards

Feet definition

Foot (abbreviate in the form of "ft" or ") is a measurement unit of length that are used in the Imperial or US standard measurement system. It's a measurement built on the human body, as the name suggests. It was first standardized in the 50s and, since then, it's the equivalent of 0.3048 meters in exact terms:

1 ft = 0.3048 m = 304.8 mm

The foot has been in use since the beginning of time in various civilizations but the length of feet varied among these different cultures. The foot was used, e.g. in:

• Ancient Rome: 1 foot = 11.6 inches (295.7 mm). This was the standard foot however, in certain provinces it could be as big in size as 13.2 inches (334 millimeters)
• Greece: 1 foot = 10.6-13.8 inches (270 - 350 millimeters)
• Indus cities during the Bronze Age: 1 foot equals 13.2 inches (333.5 millimeters)
• Egypt represents equivalent of twelve inches (304.8 millimeters)

The official imperial public measurement that is not officially recognized standards, Greenwich

The measurement of feet has been used to measure feet in England In England England measurements of the feet has also changed throughout time. It began with Roman standards, then later Belgic Celts foot of 13.2 inches or Welsh foot was introduced and then discarded. It was the definition for feet that varied from region to region, and city to city, and finally the kings changed the measurement according to their own wishes. e.g., Henry I was believed to have imposed an entirely new standard , which was built on his arm. In the following years, Edward II of England introduced an element of standardization, and introduced the statute foot, which was 10/11 shorter than the previous foot. The finalization of the length of the foot came more later, in the year 1959, after the International yard-and-pound convention was signed. Since then, the length of a yard in the United States and countries in the British Commonwealth is equal to exactly 0.9144 meters. When yard length was first established in the first place, feet could be determined too. This is similar to:

1 foot = (1/3) * yard = (1/3) * 0.9144 m = 0.3048 m

In the US two kinds of feet are used on a regular basis. The international foot and those used to survey.

1. Foot internationalAlso known as"the normal foot," it first standardized in the 50s. It's widely used in many areas, and is equivalent of 0.3048 meters: 1 . International foot 0.3048 millimeters. We've used the symbol to show is the meaning of precisely the amount. The measure used internationally is comparable to our human feet which has the dimensions that is 13 (UK) and fourteen (US male).
2. Survey foot This is the US survey foot is almost identical in terms of size to the lowest on the planet. However, the word Nearly The most important thing is . The definition of the survey foot is 1200/3937 meters. 1 US survey foot = 1200/3937 m 0,30480060960121920243840487680975... m As you can see, it looks as a small change however, there is a difference as you reach the seventh decimal! It's only 0,609 mm 609 nanometers, when you compare the one type of foot to the other. Why is this important? Important because the difference isn't significant when measuring tiny objects, but it becomes crucial when we begin measuring thousands of feet, as in, when mapping or using SPCS, also known as the State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS). The law that governs the survey foot is different across fifty states.
   • The laws of 24 states that state that the surveying methods should be based upon US feet of the survey. US survey foot
   • Eight states have voted to announce the vote in keeping with the worldwide foot
   • 18 states do not have specific conversion rate for metric units. But, don't fret about that if your in need of conversion in your regular conveyances or in the surveying of land. The distinction isn't important for smaller lengths (less less than one mile) and it doesn't matter which the definition you use.
   There's a different measurement for the foot, namely the Indian survey foot . It's described as precisely 0.3047996 M: 1. Indian survey feet equals 0.3047996 m

Feet and the entire imperial system is widely used in the US. It's not only a matter of time. The US is recognized as the only industrialized country in the world to not have adopted its International System of Units, also known as the measurement system that uses the standard unit of measurement, the metric. Two other countries that use this measurement system are Liberia in Africa within Africa as well as Myanmar (also called Burma) located on Southeast Asia. Canadians and the British employ a mix of both systems: imperial and metric (e.g. the height of males typically is expressed in feet , though inches could also be used).

Feet aren't used widely in nations that aren't english-speaking. One obvious example could be the utilization of the elevation of an aircraft in the travel industry internationally.

Meter definition

Meter (British English: metre) is the basis length unit in a variety of metrics, such as those of the International System of Units (SI).

Its meaning altered as methods for measuring scientifically evolved. The definition of meters is how long is the direction light travels in a vacuum, which is 1.99,792,458 seconds.

What was its definition when the time it was first known?

• The first trials of the definition of meter started in 1790. In 1790, a decision in 1790 that the French National Assembly decided that the length of the new meter would be similar to the length of a pendulum, with one second of a half-period. Find out the exactness of this number using our pendulum calculator. Simply enter 2. inside the pendulum's time box, and you'll be able figure out the length of pendulum. In actuality, it's about one centimeter (0.993621 meters).

• In 1973, Earth's circumference Earth was selected as a neutral reference point. The term "meter" was used to be a reference to the one-tenth of the distance from the equator to the northern pole. North Pole: 1 meter is one-tenth the quarter meridional radius of Earth that runs along the meridian that connects Paris with Paris and Earth and Paris
• 1799-1889, from 1799 to 1889 and 1799, brass, platinum and the mixture of platinum and 10% iridium meter bar were developed, with an alloy that covered all the way to the meridian of Earth. The 1st General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1889 defined that"meter" was defined as "meter" as the length of the bar that runs between the two lines that make up a standard bar made from this type of alloy. The International Prototype Meter is kept within the International Bureau of Weights and Measures situated in Sevres near Paris. The meter definition was in use up to 1960, after which it was adopted by the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures.
• From 1960 to 1983, the meters were revised in the 1960s decade. The name was changed to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths that were derived by the radioactive red Krypton86 under certain conditions.
• 17th Conference defined"meter" as 1/299,792,458 of how far light travels in one second. the definition for the meter is valid to the moment.

The table below provides an overview of the chronology of the definition of the meter (by Cardarelli, 2003).

Standard	Date	Absolute error	Relative uncertainty
One-tenth of a million in the Quadrant that lies along the Meridian	1795	500-100 mm	10 -4
The prototype for the first platinum bar standard	1799	50-10 mm	10 -5
Platinum-iridium bars that have melting point of the Ice (1st CGPM)	1889	200-100 nm	10 -7
Platinum-iridium bars in the melting point of frozen ice, atmospheric pressure supported by two rolling rollers (7th CGPM)	1927	n.a.	n.a.
Hyperfine the atomic transition 1650763.73 spectrum of visible wavelengths resulted from the specific transformation of Krypton-86 (11th CGPM)	1960	4 nm	4x10 -9
The distance over which light takes in a vacuum can be measured by fractions of one second (17th CGPM)	1983	0.1 nm	10 -10

Imperial (US) measurement system. US measurement system

The Imperial measurement system used in measurement systems in the US measurement system, and also in US measurement systems, aren't the same , however for length measurements , they're the same (they differ in measurement of volume, which implies e.g. the cup could contain quantity of floz which is different between the measurement system). The the only countries not to recognize the metric system were those of Liberia, US, Liberia and Myanmar.

The six most often used US length units (also called imperial length units) were included in our length converter:

• 1 thousandth of an inch (mil one millimeter) (mil /),
• Inches (in),
• feet (ft),
• inches and feet
• yards (yd),
• miles (mi).

There are two more length units, however we've excluded these from the length converter on purpose: The term "furlong" refers to the fact that the length of one furlong's conversion ratio isn't fully defined as well as the word league was the most widely utilized measurement in Europe and Latin America but is no anymore the official measure for one of them. However, you can see these units below, as well as the most frequently used values:

Unit	Comparatively to the previous	Feet	Millimeters	Meters
Thous (th)		1/12000	0.0254	0.0000254
inch (in)	1000 thou	1/12	25.4	0.0254
foot (ft)	12 inches	1	304.8	0.3048
yard (yd)	3 feet	3	914.4	0.9144
chain (ch)	22 yards	66	20116.8	20.1168
furlong (fur)	10 chains	660	201168	201.168
mile (mi)	8 furlongs	5280	1609344	1609.344
league (lea)	3 miles	15840	4828032	4828.032

Metric measurement system

The measurement system metric is commonly referred to as"the International System of Units (SI) is an international decimal-based system for measurements and measurements and weights. It is widely used across the globe (apart from the 3 nations mentioned in the preceding sections) It is easy to use, practical and efficient. The four most fundamental measurement units in the metric system are:

• meters ( m) for length,
• kg ( kg) for mass (check out this conversion of weight),
• Second ( s) for time,
• ampere (A) for electromagnetism.

In addition, 22 units that have distinct names are available. They are divided into five categories:

1. Electromagnetism

• Volt is a measurement of electrical potential
• Ohm, an unit of electrical resistance,
• Tesla An measurement unit for magnetic flux density
• weber is a type of magnetic flux,
• farad A measure of electrical capacitance
• Henry is a term used to refer to the electrical inductance
• Siemens is an electric conductance type
• Coulomb could be an adjective used to describe the electric charge.

1. Mechanics

• Watt A unit of mechanical or electrical power,
• Newton Mechanical unit. force,
• Jourle is a term used to refer to a type of electrical, mechanical or thermodynamic energy
• pacal is an instrument for measuring pressure.

1. Radiofrequency

• becquerel is a type of radioactive decay
• Sievert is a term that describes the absorption of radiation from Ionizing. You can calculate the dose of radiation you received on your way to the airport with this radiation calculation calculator on flights.
• gray is a part of Ionizing radiation
• Lux is an expression that is used to refer to luminescent flux
• lumen is a term used to define the brightness of light.

1. Circular arcs as well as Spherical surfaces

• The Radian is a sort of circular arc
• Sterandian Sterandian part of the area.

1. Other

• degrees Celsius can be described as a thermodynamic temperature. It is possible to utilize the temperature convertor to change degrees Celsius in Kelvins in Kelvins or Fahrenheit.
• Katal is one of the components of catalytic activity.
• hertz A number of cycles per second.