Micrometer to Meter Converter

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.

Meter

The meter is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m.

Definition of a meter: The meter is currently defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. This definition was adopted in 1983.

One meter is exactly equivalent to 5000/127 inches and to 1250/1143 yards.

Micrometers To Meters Table