1 yard in meters

Conversion

1 yard is equivalent to 0.9144 meters.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 1.09361329833771 times 1 yard.

It can also be expressed as: 1 yard is equal to $\frac{1}{1.09361329833771}$ meters.

Approximation

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

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

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.

Wikipedia page of yards

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."

Wikipedia page of meters

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.