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  2. Metre - Wikipedia

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    The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠ 1 / 299 792 458 ⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.

  3. Kilometre - Wikipedia

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    3 280.8 ft. nautical units. 0.539 96 nmi. The kilometre (SI symbol: km; / ˈkɪləmiːtər / or / kɪˈlɒmətər /), spelt kilometer in American and Philippine English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for 1000). It is the preferred measurement unit to ...

  4. Nautical mile - Wikipedia

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    The equatorial circumference is slightly longer than the polar circumference – the measurement based on this (⁠ 40,075.017 km / 360 × 60 ⁠ = 1,855.3 metres) is known as the geographical mile. Using the definition ⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ of a degree of latitude on Mars, a Martian nautical mile equals to 983

  5. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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    [4] It is approximately equal to 1.0936 yd. Other SI units are derived from the meter by adding prefixes, as in millimeter or kilometer, thus producing systematic decimal multiples and submultiples of the base unit that span many orders of magnitude. For example, a kilometer is 1000 m.

  6. Kos (unit) - Wikipedia

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    1.9 mi. 656 ft. The kos (Hindi: कोस), also spelled coss, koss, kosh, koh (in Punjabi), krosh, and krosha, is a unit of measurement which is derived from a Sanskrit term, क्रोश krośa, which means a 'call', as the unit was supposed to represent the distance at which another human could be heard. It is an ancient Indian ...

  7. Square kilometre - Wikipedia

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    The square kilometre (square kilometer in American spelling; symbol: km2) is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. 1 km 2 is equal to: 1,000,000 square metres (m 2) 100 hectares (ha) It is also approximately equal to: 0.3861 square miles [2] 247.1 acres [3] Conversely: 1 m 2 = 0.000001 (10 −6) km 2.

  8. Light-year - Wikipedia

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    astronomical units. 63 241 au. 0.3066 pc. A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr[3]), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9 460 730 472 580.8 km, which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi.

  9. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The solar flux unit is a unit of spectral irradiance equal to 10 −22 W⋅m −2 ⋅Hz −1 (100 yW⋅m −2 ⋅Hz −1). The nox (nx) is a unit of illuminance equal to 1 millilux (1 mlx). The nit (nt) is a unit of luminance equal to one candela per metre squared (1 cd⋅m −2). The lambert (L) is a unit of luminance equal to 10 4 /π cd⋅m ...