Convert miles to meters
Conversion of mi to m (miles to meters) is now a piece of cake with our miles to meter length conversion calculator.
Input your value in the box with meter selected and get your answer instantly. You can change the unit by selecting from the dropdown list.
Mile
Symbol
The mile symbol ‘m’ was frequently employed before the widespread adoption of the metric system. However, "mi" became the standard mile symbol after the metric system to avoid confusion between miles and meters.
Description
Mile is a British imperial Unit and United States customary unit of distance. Sometimes the statute mile or international mile distinguishes it from other miles. Both miles are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.
For length conversion calculation from miles to meter, you need to multiply the mile value by 1609.344. This means one mile is standardized as exactly 1609.344 meters.
Converting mile to kilometers, a mile is exactly 1.609344 kilometers. So, a kilometer is equivalent to 1/1.609344 miles. In case of mile to inches conversion, 63,360 inches make a mile. While inch is a much smaller unit, nautical mile is larger than mile. To be precise, a mile is equal to 0.868976 nautical miles.
The term "mile" is also used to describe or translate a wide variety of units that are derived from or substantially equivalent to the Roman mile (about 1.48 km). That includes the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 0.5 km or 500 m exactly).
History
Mile originated from the Roman mille passus, or “thousand paces,” which measured 5,000 Roman feet or footsteps. The Romans invented and used this unit 2,000 years ago. They introduced it to the world when they conquered Britain.
Use
Mile is used for expressing land distances between locations. Although Kilometer is more predominantly used these days, many countries use mile for the purpose.
Meter
Symbol
The meter is represented by the symbol ‘m’.
Description
Meter is the base unit of length in the SI system (International System of Units). The term meter was originally derived from the Greek words "metreo" (verb form) and "metron" (noun form) meaning "measure”.
The length of the path that light takes in the vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds was the official definition of a meter from 1983 to 2019. As of 2019, the meter has been redefined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second where a caesium hyperfine transition frequency defines the second.
Hence, the difference between the old and new definitions of meter is the addition of the definition of the second. However, interestingly the definition of the meter fixes the speed of light in a vacuum to the exact value of 299,792,458 m/s.
Meters can be changed to other SI units using prefix multipliers based on powers of ten. For example, a meter consists of 100 centimeters, and one thousand meters equals a kilometer.
To convert m to in (meter to inches), you will need to multiplu the meter by 39.37 since a meter equals 39.37 inches. Let's talk about large unites and how meter looks in comparison to them. 1609 meters is equivalent to a statute mile.
History
The French first used the unit meter in the late 1700s. On March 30, 1791, the French Academy of Sciences specified the length of a meter.
However, it was officially defined in 1799. In 1983, the meter was defined as it is measured now. But in 2019, the addition of the definition of second was added to it to reducec uncertainity.
The English word 'metre' was first used at the beginning of 1797. It was first measured with an interferometer by Albert A. Michelson in 1893.
Use
Meter is used for length, height, width and thickness measurement of objects in countries that follow SI units. However, in the states it is not used commonly.
How to convert miles to meters?
Miles and meters are both length units. But how many meters are in a mile? About 1609.344. With our free mi to m length conversion calculator, you don't have to worry about it! To convert of miles to meters, you have to multiply mile value by 1609.344 or divide it by 0.000621.
1 mi = 1609.344 m
0.000621 mi = 1 m
Mile to Meter conversion table
Mile | Meter |
---|---|
0.01 mi | 16.09344 m |
0.1 mi | 160.9344 m |
1 mi | 1609.344 m |
2 mi | 3218.688 m |
3 mi | 4828.032 m |
5 mi | 8046.72 m |
10 mi | 16093.44 m |
20 mi | 32186.88 m |
100 mi | 160934.4 m |
1000 mi | 1609344 m |
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