The distance that light travels in about a three hundred millionth of a second. Wait, that's just the actual definition.
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About the length of a golden retriever
About as wide as my oversized fridge.
Can't wait to get rid of that shit and have something that actually fits in my kitchen.
My meter is about six inches by three (from memory). It measures voltage (both AC and DC) and current.
The distance between the first line in a hopscotch game and where I would put the top line of the [4, 5] block.
About this long holds palms one meter apart.
The square root of a square meter
about 33 AU's
take a meter stick, now cut it in half. glue it back together. a meter is probably a little bit longer than this since you lost some material cutting.
It's about as close as I'm comfortable standing to a stranger
3 1/3 Subway sandwiches
It's more than less than a meter but less than more than a meter.
Around 2 cats long
About twice as long as half of its length
The distance light travels when it goes one meter.
One-half a Darth Vader.
Same length as a string.
About 2 bushels and a peck.
Take one liter of water at "room temperature" an aprox of 20 Celcuis degrees at one atmosfere pressure. Take a straight transparent tube of one centimeter inner thickness. Put the water in without spilling.
Measue...
A meter...
That's wrong. The tube has a cross section of 0.25π cm² so your tube will be filled ~1,2732m high.
Also as others have stated, if you can measure 1cm you already have a definition of a Meter.
Accidentally measured diagonally, now what
you will have measured 1.00005 meters (sqrt(1+0.01²)), assuming your eyes are the best in the world.
how am I supposed to measure the inner thickness?
5.618 Bananas
About 4 stacked house cats, or a bit longer than a 3-year-old.
Hold one arm on your body and stretch the other one to your side. Now make your wrists/hands point forward. This is a meter.
Well, meter, like atom meter? Or like gas meter? Anti meter? You need to specify the type of meter.
Pentameter
Iambic or dactylic?
The carpet I'm standing on. No, I'm not giving you any pictures.
3 feet + a snickers bar
Or if I feel the need to be rude toward a man: 3 feet + your penis
About a yard
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