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· 04 Jan 2022

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How Many Feet makes a meter?

A meter is defined as the standard unit of length measurement in the metric system. In the imperial system, a meter is equal to about 3.2 feet or 3 feet 3 inches. The metric system is the standard of measurement used nearly everywhere in the world except the United States; thus, it is the main system of measurement for scientific studies.

The meter originated in the late 1700's during the scientific revolution in Europe. Important scientists of the time decided they needed a standard unit of measurement to compare across studies and disciplines. The French Academy of Sciences decided on 1/10,000,000 of one half of a meridian, the distance between the North Pole and Paris. A stone meter was created and preserved as a reference, although the meter was not fully adopted as an official unit of measurement internationally until the 1875 Metre Convention where the metric system was adopted. Today, only the United States, Burma and Liberia use the imperial system and all other countries use the metric system.

One meter is equal to about three feet, it can be helpful to have visual comparison. They are distances that about the same size of a meter, they are; the width of a doorway

•    The length of a guitar
•    The length of a baseball bat
•    A yard stick
•    Half the width of a full size bed
•    The width of a large fridge
•    The width of a dresser drawer
•    The depth in the shallow end of a pool

The foot (pl. feet), standard symbol: ft. is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is a customarily used alternative symbol. Since the International Yard and Pound Agreement of 1959, one foot is defined as 0.3048 meters exactly. In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches and one yard comprises three feet.
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