Yard to Inch Converter

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'.

Inch

The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to 1/36 yard or 1/12 of a foot. The word inch has been derived from the Roman word uncia (meaning 'twelfth'). There are 12 inches in a foot. Currently an inch is defined as exactly 25.4 millimeters.

Inch is regularly used in Britain and the Commonwealth countries like India, Australia, Canada etc. It is often used to express the height of a person (for example, 'John is 5 feet 9 inches (5′ 9″)'). In most of continental Europe, the inch is also used informally as a measure for display screens. (e.g. 42 inch TV)

Yards To Inches Table