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Square metre

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The square metre
Metre

The metre or meter is a Unit of measurement of length. It is the SI base unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units , used around the world for general and scientific purposes....
(also spelled square meter, see spelling differences

Metric system

The metric system is an international decimalised systems of measurement, founded by France in 1791, that is the common system of Unit of measurement used by most of the world....
) is the SI derived unit

SI derived unit

SI derived units are part of the SI system of measurement Units of measurements and are derived from the seven SI base units.Note that while the names of all SI units are in lowercase, the symbols of units named after people are written with an initial capital letter ....
of area

Area

Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. The term surface area refers to the total area of the exposed surface of a 3-dimensional solid, such as the sum of the areas of the exposed sides of a polyhedron....
, with symbol m²(33A1 in Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
). It is defined as the area of a square

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
whose sides measure exactly one metre.

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M^2 redirects here. For other uses, see M²
M²

m? may mean*Square metre, an SI measure of area*m? , the ambient project of German electronic musician and DJ Mathis Mootz'M? may mean:...
.

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Metric system

SI derived unit

Area

Unicode

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
whose sides measure exactly one metre. The square metre is derived from the SI base unit

SI base unit

The International System of Units defines seven dimensional analysis SI base units. All other physical units can be derived from these base units: these are known as SI derived units....
of the metre, which in turn is defined as the length

Length

Length is the long dimension of any object. The length of a thing is the distance between its ends, its linear extent as measured from end to end....
of the path travelled by light

Light

Light, or visible light, is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is Visible spectrum to the human eye , or up to 380?750 nm. In the broader field of physics, light is sometimes used to refer to electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths, whether visible or not....
in absolute vacuum

Vacuum

A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, such that its gaseous pressure is much less than atmospheric pressure. The word comes from the Latin term for "empty," but in reality, no volume of space can ever be perfectly empty....
during a time

Time

Time is a component of the measurement used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects....
interval of of a second

Second

The second , sometimes abbreviated sec., is the name of a units of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units SI base unit of time....
.

Adding SI prefix

SI prefix

An SI prefix is a name or associated symbol that precedes a basic unit of measure to form a decimal multiple . The abbreviation SI is from the French language name Syst?me International d?Unit?s ....
es creates multiples and submultiples; however, as the unit is squared, the order of magnitude

Order of magnitude

An order of magnitude is the class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed Geometric progression to the class preceding it....
difference between units doubles from their comparable linear units. For example, a kilometre

Kilometre

The kilometre , symbol km is a Units of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres.Slang terms for kilometre include click and kay ....
is one thousand times the length of a metre, but a square kilometre is one million times the area of a square metre.

A square metre is not the same as a meter square, an area 2 metres wide by 5 metres long would be 10 square metres, in contrast 10 metres squared means an area 10 metres by 10 metres. So 10 metres squared = 100 Square meteres.

SI prefixes applied to the square metre

The square metre may be used with all SI prefixes used with the metre.

Multiple	Name	Symbol	Multiple	Name	Symbol
10⁰	square metre (centiare Centiare A centiare is a unit of area, equal to 1 square meter, used in some countries for measuring small land areas, usually in combination with ares, e.g. 1a 16ca = 116 m?.... )	m²	10⁰	square metre (centiare Centiare A centiare is a unit of area, equal to 1 square meter, used in some countries for measuring small land areas, usually in combination with ares, e.g. 1a 16ca = 116 m?.... )	m²
10²	square decametre (are Are Are is a unit of area, equal to 100 square metres , used for measuring land area. It was defined by older forms of the metric system, but is now outside of the modern SI .... )	dam²	10^–2	square decimetre	dm²
10⁴	square hectometre (hectare Hectare A hectare is a unit of area equal to , or one square hectometre , and commonly used for surveying.The hectare is used in most countries around the world, especially in domains concerned with land ownership, land planning, and land management, including law , agriculture, forestry, and town planning.... )	hm²	10^–4	square centimetre	cm²
10⁶	square kilometre Square kilometre Square kilometre , symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI Units of measurement of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units....	km²	10^–6	square millimetre	mm²
10¹²	square megametre	Mm²	10^–12	square micrometre	µm²
10¹⁸	square gigametre	Gm²	10^–18	square nanometre	nm²
10²⁴	square terametre	Tm²	10^–24	square picometre	pm²
10³⁰	square petametre	Pm²	10^–30	square femtometre	fm²
10³⁶	square exametre	Em²	10^–36	square attometre	am²
10⁴²	square zettametre	Zm²	10^–42	square zeptometre	zm²
10⁴⁸	square yottametre	Ym²	10^–48	square yoctometre	ym²

Conversions

A square metre is equal to:

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SI prefixes applied to the square metre

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