What body part was the meter named for?

Anonymous

∙ 11y ago

Updated: 8/21/2019

The meter was originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole (at sea level). It comes from the French metre from the Greek metreonwhich means "measure." You might be thinking of the "foot."

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∙ 11y ago

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