1 metre

"1m" redirects here. For other uses, see 1m (disambiguation).

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.

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 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

• 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^[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 9 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 meteoroid

Distances longer than 10 m

See also

Click on the thumbnail image to jump to the desired Human-scale order of length magnitude article: top-left is 1E-6 m, lower-right is 1E5 m.

Notes

1. ^ Laws of the Game, http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/81/42/36/lawsofthegameen.pdf 
2. ^ IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - Statistics - Top Lists, archived from the original on 2008-01-16, http://web.archive.org/web/20080116121100/http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=O/ageGroup=N/season=0/gender=M/discipline=HJ/legal=A/index.html 
3. ^ IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - Past Results, http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH91/data/M/LJ/Rf.html 
4. ^ "Tallest Man". Guinness World Records. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/human_body/extreme_bodies/tallest_man.aspx. Retrieved 2009-10-20. 
5. ^ Dagg, A. I. (1971), Mammalian Species 5 (Giraffa camelopardalis ed.), pp. 1–8