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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Meter - m

The meter (m) is a unit of measure for length in the SI and MKS systems. Equal to 1.094 yards in the English system and 100 centimeters in the CGS system

The standard of meter unit:


The meter (m) was originally defined in 1790 to be 1/10,000,000 the distance between the equator and either pole at sea level.


The meter is now defined with reference to the speed of light in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 m/s.



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