One foot is approximately 0.3048 meter. There are about 1609 meters in a statute mile. The official span was at one time formally defined as the separation between two scratches on a platinum bar in Paris. This was, of course, intended mainly for show, and not for use in the laboratory. These units are found in nonscientific as well as scientific literature.
Smaller units are the realm of the scientist and engineer.
The meter and its kin are used to specify the wavelength s of EM field s. In engineering applications, and also in an everyday sense, the term meter refers to any instrument used to measure the magnitude of a quantity. Bringing you the best technology specific search engines.