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Length is the measure of one spatial dimension, whereas area is a measure of two dimensions (length squared) and volume is a measure of three dimensions (length cubed). History. Measurement has been important ever since humans settled from nomadic lifestyles and started using building materials, occupying land and trading with neighbours.
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Length is a measurement. The length of something is the distance between two ends of the thing. Short means a small length. Long means much length. Short and long are opposites. For two dimensional things, length is usually the longer side. A ruler is a tool used to measure length.
A unit of length is a way of measuring length or distance . Common units of length in the International System of Units (SI) are: metre and units that are developed from it, such as "centimetre" or "kilometre" But there are a lot of units that do not fit in the SI-System: fermi (fm) (= 1 femtometre in SI units)
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 299 792 458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium. [2]
