1 meter in yards

Result

The conversion result is: 1 meter is equivalent to 1.09361329833771 yards.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 yard is equal to 0.9144 times 1 meter.

It can also be expressed as: 1 meter is equal to 1 / 0.9144 yards.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: one meter is about one point zero nine yards, or alternatively, a yard is about zero point nine one times one meter.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Meters

"The metre (international spelling) or meter (American spelling), (from the Greek noun μέτρον, \"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 1/299792458 seconds."

Yards

The yard (abbreviation: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. It is by international agreement in 1959 standardized as exactly 0.9144 meters. A metal yardstick originally formed the physical standard from which all other units of length were officially derived in both English systems.

Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.