1 metre
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at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man within a square of side 1.83 metres and a circle about 1.2 metres in radius
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between one metre and ten metres. Light travels 1 metre in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
Contents
Conversions
1 metre is:
- 10 decimetres
- 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
Human-defined scales and structures
- 1 m – approximate height of the top part of a doorknob on a door
- 1.435 m – standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4' 8½"
- 2.77–3.44 m – wavelength of the broadcast radio FM band 87–108 MHz
- 3.05 m – the length of an old Mini
- 8.38 m – the length of a London Bus (Routemaster)
Sports
- 3.05 m – (10 feet) height of the basket in basketball
- 2.44 m – height of an association football goal[1]
- 2.45 m – highest jump by a human being (Javier Sotomayor)[2]
- 8.95 m – longest jump by a human being (Mike Powell)[3]
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[update] (source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)).
- 1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) - height of average US male human as of 2002[update] (source: US CDC as per female above)
- 2.72 m – (8 feet 11 inches) - tallest known human being (Robert Wadlow)[4]
- 3.63 m – the record wingspan for living birds (a wandering albatross)
- 5.20 m – height of a giraffe[5]
- 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
Notes
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