Chains to Meters calculator

Chains

Location designator painted on a British railway bridge, showing 112 miles and 63 chains.

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Meters

A traffic sign indicating hump 200 meters ahead.

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Chains to Meters Conversion Table

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• Chain (20.11684 meters)

  A chain is a unit of length that measures 66 feet, 22 yards, 100 links, or 4 rods (20.1168 m). There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. An acre is the area of 10 square chains (that is, an area of one chain by one furlong). The chain has been used for several centuries in England and in some other countries influenced by English practice. In Scotland a chain was 74 feet.

• Meter (1 meters)

  The metre (British and International Bureau of Weights and Measures spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m. The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1 / 299 792 458 second.