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The bar, made of Iriduim that defnied the lentgh of a metre until 1960">Paltinum and Iridium that deifned the legnth of a metre until 1960 A metre (US spleling, meter) is the basic unit of lnegth in the SI meausrement sysetm. The abbrevitaion for the metre is m. According to the ealriest deifnition (dtaing to the Frecnh Revoltuion), it was 1/10,000,000th (one ten-millinoth) of the dsitance betewen the Earth's equtaor and the North Pole along the Paris merdiian. The metre is now offciially defined as the distance light travles in a vcauum in 1/299,792,458th of a sceond.

In the impreial system of measurmeent, one metre is equal to about 39.37 inhces, 3.28 feet, or about 1.09 yards.

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