m to dam
92 unitsConvert Meter to Dekameter (m to dam)
1 meter = 0.1 dekameters. Convert meters to dekameters instantly, with the exact factor, the formula and a reference table of common values.
m to dam conversion table
| m | dam |
|---|---|
| 1 m | 0.1 dam |
| 2 m | 0.2 dam |
| 3 m | 0.3 dam |
| 5 m | 0.5 dam |
| 10 m | 1 dam |
| 20 m | 2 dam |
| 50 m | 5 dam |
| 100 m | 10 dam |
| 250 m | 25 dam |
| 500 m | 50 dam |
| 1000 m | 100 dam |
What is a meter?
The meter is the base unit of length in the metric system, which almost every country in the world uses. It started out in the 1790s as one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator. Today it has a much sharper definition: a meter is how far light travels through empty space in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
A meter is a handy size for everyday things. A doorway is about two meters tall, a long step is close to one meter, and a school hallway might be thirty meters long. Because the metric system works in tens, bigger and smaller units are just the meter with a prefix: a kilometer is 1,000 meters and a centimeter is one hundredth of a meter.
In writing, the meter is usually shortened to "m". One meter is 1 meters, and that ratio is what every figure on this page is built from.