Millimeter to Yard Converter

Millimeter

The millimeter (symbol: mm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a meter. Meter, as you know, is the SI base unit of length. Therefore, there are one thousand millimeters in a meter. There are ten millimeters in a centimeter.

One millimeter is equal to 1000 micrometers or 1000000 nanometers. Since an inch is officially defined as exactly 25.4 millimeters, a millimeter is equal to exactly 5⁄127 (≈ 0.03937) of an inch.

The millimeter is often used in day-to-day life for measuring small lengths. For example, pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). A sheet of paper is typically between 0.07 mm and 0.18 mm thick, with ordinary printer paper or copy paper approximately 0.1 mm thick. More information

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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