metres
Roughly three feet
Metres is the British spelling of meters, the plural of the basic metric unit of length—about 39.4 inches or slightly longer than a yard.
The pool is fifty metres long.
Also the plural of metre meaning poetic rhythm: The poem shifts between several metres.
measurement
Thousand meters
- centimetreHundredth of a metre
- millimetreMetric unit, very small
- nanometreBillionth of a meter
- micrometreOne-millionth of a meter
decimetre · length · distance · SI · ruler · tape · calibrate · dimension
kilometre
Thousand meters
- centimetreHundredth of a metre
- millimetreMetric unit, very small
- nanometreBillionth of a meter
micrometre · decimetre · length · distance · SI · ruler · tape · calibrate · dimension · height
pentameter
Five-foot poetic line
feet · scansion · rhythm · syllable · stress · beat · prosody · hexameter · tetrameter · trimeter
- metric systemDecimal-based measurement standard
- cubic metresVolume measurement units
- metric unitsDecimal-based measurement standards
- metric tonThousand-kilogram mass unit
- metric conversionChanging between measurement standards
- metric prefixScale indicator for measurements
metre, metrics, metric, metrical, metrically, parametric, metrication