1 metre

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between one metre and ten metres.
1 metre is 1,650,763.73 times the distance travelled by ultra voilet radiations emitted by Krypton-86.
Distances shorter than 1 m
Conversions
1 metre is:
* 10 decimetres
* 100 centimetres
* 1000 millimetres
* 39.37 inches
* 3.28 feet
* side of square with area 1 m
* edge of cube with surface area 6 m and volume 1 m
* radius of circle with area 3.14 m
* radius of sphere with surface area and volume 4.19 m
Human-defined scales and structures
*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 a football goal
*2.45 m — highest jump by a human being (Javier Sotomayor)
*8.95 m — longest jump by a human being (Mike Powell)
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 (source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)).
*1.75 m — (5 feet 9 inches) - height of average US male human (source: US CDC as per female above)
*2.72 m — (8 feet 11 inches) - tallest known human being (Robert Wadlow)
*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 , a meteoroid
 
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