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Foot

Definition: A foot (symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.

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A foot was defined as exactly meters in One foot contains 12 inches, and one yard is comprised of three feet.

History/origin: Prior to standardization of units of measurement, and the definition of the foot currently in use, the measurement of the foot was used in many different systems including the Greek, Roman, English, Chinese, and French systems, varying in length between each.

The various lengths were due to parts of the human body historically being used as a basis for units of length (such as the cubit, hand, span, digit, and many others, sometimes referred to as anthropic units). This resulted in the measurement of a foot varying between mm and mm in the past compared to the current definition of mm.

While the United States is one of the few, if not only, countries in which the foot is still widely used, many countries used their own version of the foot prior to metrication, as evidenced by a fairly large list of obsolete feet measurements.

Current use: The foot is primarily used in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for many everyday applications.

In the US, feet and inches are commonly used to measure height, shorter distances, field length (sometimes in the form of yards), etc.

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Feet are also commonly used to measure altitude (aviation) as well as elevation (such as that of a mountain). The international foot corresponds to human feet with shoe size 13 (UK), 14 (US male), (US female), or 46 (EU).

Centimeter

Definition: A centimeter (symbol: cm) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), the current form of the metric system.

It is defined as 1/ meters.

History/origin: A centimeter is based on the SI unit meter, and as the prefix "centi" indicates, is equal to one hundredth of a meter. Metric prefixes range from factors of 10 to 10¹⁸ based on a decimal system, with the base (in this case the meter) having no prefix and having a factor of 1.

Learning some of the more commonly used metric prefixes, such as kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, centi-, milli-, micro-, and nano-, can be helpful for quickly navigating metric units.

Current use: The centimeter, like the meter, is used in all sorts of applications worldwide (in countries that have undergone metrication) in instances where a smaller denomination of the meter is required.

Height is commonly measured in centimeters outside of countries like the United States.

Foot to Centimeter Conversion Table

Foot [ft]	Centimeter [cm]
ft	cm
ft	cm
1 ft	cm
2 ft	cm
3 ft	cm
5 ft	cm
10 ft	cm
20 ft	cm
50 ft	cm
ft	cm
ft	cm

How to Convert Foot to Centimeter

1 ft = cm
1 cm = ft

Example: convert 15 ft to cm:
15 ft = 15 × cm = cm

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