I think we can agree there are large and short meters. So everyone is right.
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Take one liter of water at "room temperature" an aprox of 20 Celcuis degrees at one atmosfere pressure. Take a straight transparent tube of one centimeter inner thickness. Put the water in without spilling.
Measue...
A meter...
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5.618 Bananas
The distance that light travels in about a three hundred millionth of a second. Wait, that's just the actual definition.
About a yard
About the length of a golden retriever
Hold one arm on your body and stretch the other one to your side. Now make your wrists/hands point forward. This is a meter.
Well, meter, like atom meter? Or like gas meter? Anti meter? You need to specify the type of meter.
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The square root of a square meter
About as wide as my oversized fridge.
Can't wait to get rid of that shit and have something that actually fits in my kitchen.
approximately 1.06 × 10⁻⁷ nanolightyears
Enough thread for 10 to 15 stitches.
3 feet + a snickers bar
Or if I feel the need to be rude toward a man: 3 feet + your penis
About 0.59 Smoots
Same length as a string.
About 2 bushels and a peck.
One-half a Darth Vader.
The distance between the first line in a hopscotch game and where I would put the top line of the [4, 5] block.
My meter is about six inches by three (from memory). It measures voltage (both AC and DC) and current.
It's more than less than a meter but less than more than a meter.