This category of measurement units is defined by the "length" type, which is an SI base quantity.
The SI base unit for length is the meter.
The metre, symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of "length", in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. The internationally-accepted spelling of the unit in English is "metre", although the American English spelling meter is a common variant. However, both American and non-American forms of English agree that the spelling "meter" should be used as a suffix in the names of measuring devices such as chronometers and micrometers.
agate [Adobe]
alen [Danish]
alen [Scandinavia]
alen [Swedish]
angstrom
arms-length
arpent [Canada]
arpent [France]
arsheen [Russia]
arshin [iran]
arshin [iraq]
astronomical unit
attometre
bamboo
barleycorn
bee space
bicron
block [East U.S.]
block [Midwest U.S.]
block [South, West U.S.]
bohr
braccio [Italy]
braza [Argentina]
braza [Spain]
braza [Texas]
button measure
cable [British]
cable [U.S.]
caliber
canna
cape foot
cape inch
cape rood
centimetre
ch'ih [China]
chain [Gunter, survey]
chain [Ramsden, engineer]
chinese foot
chinese inch
chinese mile
chinese yard
city block [East U.S.]
city block [Midwest U.S.]
city block [South, West U.S.]
click [U.S. military]
cuadra
cuadra [Argentina]
cubit [Egyption]
cubit [English]
cubit [Roman]
cubit [Royal Egyptian]
cuerda
decameter
decametre
decimetre
dekametre
didot point
digit
diraa [Egypt]
dong [Vietnam]
douzième [print]
douzième [watchmaking]
dra [Iraq]
dra [Russia]
el [Dutch]
ell [English]
ell [Scotland]
elle [Germany]
elle [Vienna]
em
estadio [Portugal]
estadio [Spain]
exametre
faden [Austria]
faden [Switzerland]
fall [English]
fall [Scotland]
fathom
fathom [ancient]
faust [Hungary]
femtometre
fermi
finger
fingerbreadth
fist
fod
foot
foot [Egypt]
foot [France]
foot [iraq]
foot [Netherlands]
foot [pre-1963 Canada]
foot [Rome]
foot [survey]
football field [Canada]
football field [U.S., complete]
football field [U.S.]
furlong [international]
furlong [survey]
fuss [German]
gigalight year
gigametre
gigaparsec
gnat's eye
goad
gry
hair's breadth
hand [non-equine]
handbreadth
hat [Cambodia]
hectometre
heer
hubble
hvat [Croatia]
inch
iron
ken [Japan]
kerat
kilofoot
kilometre
kiloparsec
kiloyard
kind
klafter [Austria]
klafter [Switzerland]
klick
kyu
lap [competition]
lap [old]
lap [olympic pool]
league [ancient Celtic]
league [nautical]
league [UK nautical]
league [UK]
league [US statute]
leap
legoa
legua
legua [Spanish, post-1568]
legua [Spanish, pre-1568]
legua [Texas]
li [ancient China]
li [imperial China]
li [modern China]
lieue [France, metric]
lieue [France, nautical]
lieue [France]
light day
light hour
light minute
light month
light second
light week
light year
ligne [France]
ligne [Swiss]
line
line [small]
linear foot
link [Gunter, survey]
link [Ramden, engineer]
lug
lug [great]
marathon
mark twain
megalight year
megametre
megaparsec
meile [Austria]
meile [geographische]
meile [North Germany]
metre
metric mile
metric mile [high school]
microinch
micrometre
micromicron
micron
miglio
miil (mijl) [Danish]
miil (mijl) [Denmark]
miil (mijl) [Sweden, ancient]
mil
mil [Sweden]
mile
mile [Britain, ancient]
mile [international]
mile [Irish]
mile [nautical, international]
mile [nautical, UK]
mile [nautical, US]
mile [Roman, ancient]
mile [Scottish]
mile [statute, international]
mile [statute, US]
mile [statute]
mile [survey]
milha [Portuguese]
military pace
military pace [double time]
milla [Spanish]
mille [French]
milliare [Rome]
millimetre
millimicron
mkono [Africa]
moot [India]
myriametre
nail
nanometre
nanon
pace [great]
pace [Roman]
palm [Britain, Roman minor]
palm [Dutch]
palm [US, Roman major]
palmo [Portuguese]
palmo [Spanish]
palmo [Texas]
parasang
Paris foot
parsec
pe [Portuguese]
pearl
perch
perch [Ireland]
pertica
pes
petametre
pica
picometre
pie [Argentina]
pie [Italian]
pie [Spanish]
pie [Texas]
pied de roi
pik
pike [Greece]
point [Adobe]
point [Britain, US]
point [Didot]
point [TeX]
pole
polegada [Portuguese]
pouce
pu [China]
pulgada
pygme [Greece]
Q
quadrant
quarter
quarter [cloth]
quarter [print]
range
reed [Israel]
ri [Japan]
ridge
river [Egypt]
rod [international]
rod [survey]
roede
rood
rope
royal foot
rute [Germany]
sadzhen
sagene
Scots foot
Scots mile
seemeile
shackle
shaftment
shaftment [ancient]
shaku
siriometre
smoot
span
spat
stadium
step
stick
story
stride [great]
stride [Roman]
t'sun
tenthmetre
terametre
thou
toise
township
tu
twain
twip
U
vara [California]
vara [Mexico]
vara [Portuguese]
vara [South America]
vara [Spanish]
vara [Texas]
verge
vershok
verst
wah [Thailand]
werst
X unit
yard
yoctometre
yottametre
zeptometre
zettametre
zoll [Germany]
zoll [Switzerland]
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