Foot to Yard 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).

Yard

The yard (symbol: yd) is a unit of length in the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement. One yard is equal to 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959, yard has been standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile.

The yard is used as the standard unit of field-length measurement in American, Canadian and association football, cricket pitch dimensions (22yd), and in some countries, golf fairway measurements. In some parts of India, square yard is used as the unit of area - especially for plots of land. The yard, subdivided into eighths, is used for the purchase of fabrics in the United States and United Kingdom. Sometimes, the square yard (unit of area) and the cubic yard (unit of volume) are both referred to as 'yards'.

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