1 E0 m
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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between one metre and ten metres.
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Conversions
1 metre is:- 100 centimetres
- 1000 millimetres
- 39.37 inches
- 3.28 feet
- side of square with area 1 m²
- edge of cube with surface area 6 m² and volume 1 m³
- radius of circle with area 3.14 m²
- radius of sphere with surface area 12.56 m² and volume 4.19 m³
Wavelengths
- 1.00 m — wavelength of the highest VHF radio frequency, 300 MHz
- 2.77 m — minimum wavelength of the broadcast radio FM band 87 MHz
- 10.0 m — wavelength of the lowest + (-) VHF radio frequency, 30 MHz
Sports
- 3.05 m — (10 feet) height of the basket in basketball
Human-built structures
- 1.435 m — Standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4' 8½"
- 3.05 m — The length of an old Mini
- 8.38 m — The length of a London Bus (Routemaster)
Nature
- 1 m — height of Homo floresiensis (the "Hobbit")
- 1.15 m — a pizote (mammal)
- 1.37 m — average height of an Andamanese person
- 1.63 m — (5 feet 4 inches) (or 64 inches) - height of average US female human as of 2002 (source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)).
- 1.77 m — (5 feet 9.5 inches) - height of average US male human as of 2002 (source: US CDC as per female above)
- 3.63 m — the record wingspan for living birds (a Wandering Albatross)
- 5.20 m — height of a giraffe
- 5.5 m — height of a Baluchitherium, the largest land mammal ever lived
- 7 m — wingspan of Argentavis, the largest flying bird known
- 7.50 m — approximate length of the human gastrointestinal tract
Astronomical
- 3 - 6 m — approximate diameter of 2003 SQ222, a meteoroid
See also
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