Feet to Meters Converter

Conversion of feet to meter and meter to feet can seem the same thing while being very different things. Feet to meter, conversion is simpler as feet happen to be the smaller unit here. Before we get into conversions, let us know about each of the unit separately so we get a better understanding of what they really mean.

How to convert feet to meters?

Feet to Meters converter Formula

1 ft

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0.3048 m 1 ft

=

0.3048 m

1 ft = 0.3048 m
1 m = 3.280839895 ft

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Example

Convert 2 feet to meters:

2ft = 2 × 0.3048 = 0.6096m

What is Feet?

A feet is technically defined as 0.3048 meters exactly. feet can also be written as “ft” or by using a prime symbol (‘) . One feet contains about 12 inches or 30.48 cm. This unit of measurement was known as foot because it is originally based on the length of a feet. The feet was used in many systems including that of Greek, Roman, English, Chinese and French before it was standardized as a unit of measurement. Earlier the exact length of the feet differed because of difference in anatomy of each person. It was between 250mm and 335 mm in the past as that compared to that of the above measurement.

Foot/feet are usually used to measure height or shorter distances. In addition, it is widely used to measure altitude or elevation like that of a mountain.

What is Meter?

The metre or meter (m) is the basic unit of length of in the international system of units (SI). This term “meter” is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in the vacuum in 1/299, 792, 458 of a second. Originally, in 1793, it has been said that the meter was defined by one ten millionth of the distance from that of the equator to the northern pole.

Conversion from Feet to Meter

This should help you to get accurate answers and should help you with feet to meter conversions.