A unit of length that is one of the seven base SI units and is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second (BIPM 1998, p. 94).
A meter is equal to 1.09361 yards.
Centimeter, Diopter, Micrometer, Micron, Millimeter, Speed of Light, Stere, Yard
References
Bureau International des Poids et Mesures. "The International System of Units (SI), 7th ed." 1998. http://www1.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/.
