Foot to Micrometer Converter

Foot

The foot (symbol: ft or ′) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

Definition of a foot: 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.

The plural of foot is feet. The foot is often used to measure and express height of a person. In the aviation, the flying altitude is also expressed in feet (e.g. 'we are flying at a height of 30,000 feet').

The length of the international foot corresponds to a human foot with shoe size of 13 (UK), 14 (US male), 15.5 (US female) or 48 (EU sizing).

Micrometer

A micrometer (symbol: μm) is a unit for measuring length. One micrometer equals to one millionth of a meter i.e. 0.000001 m. One micrometer can be expressed in scientific notation as 1×10⁻⁶ m.

Micrometer is often used to express length at the atomic levels. The micrometer is a common unit of measurement for wavelengths of infrared radiation as well as sizes of biological cells and bacteria. The width of a single human hair ranges from approximately 20 to 200 μm. The longest human chromosome, chromosome 1, is approximately 10 μm in length.

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