Use units of millimeters, meters, or kilometers.
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The metric system is used to measure distance in Brazil. Distances are typically measured in kilometers (km) and meters (m).
Distance is commonly measured in metric units such as meters (m), kilometers (km), centimeters (cm), and millimeters (mm).
You can use a measuring tape or a laser measuring device to measure the distance to the door in metric units, such as meters or centimeters. Simply extend the measuring tool from your starting point to the door to determine the distance.
You would typically use the metric unit "kilometers" to measure the distance from home to school.
The word, metric, means referring to a measure: it is a measure of some characteristic and how it is measured depends on the way in which it is defined. This may be illustrated by considering the metric for distance. Conventionally, the metric for the distance between two points is the length of the straight line joining them. However, on the surface of a sphere, for example, it is a length along the "Great Circle". In a Minkovski space (for example a road grid like in Manhattan) it is the North-South distance plus the East-West distance.