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Cubit (UK)
The cubit is one of the oldest known units of length, originally based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. The English cubit was standardised at 18 inches (approximately 0.4572 metres), though ancient variants ranged from about 44 to 53 centimetres depending on civilisation. The cubit was fundamental to construction and trade in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and across the classical world, and appears throughout historical texts including the Hebrew Bible.
Meter
The metre (Commonwealth spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μετρούν, "measure") is the base unit of length in 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 of a second.
The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's circumference is approximately 40000 km. In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar (the actual bar used was changed in 1889). In 1960, the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. In 1983, the current definition was adopted.