Take a really long rope and put one end on either pole of the Earth, and the other end on the equator. Use the shortest path, and make sure the rope is tight. No squiggles allowed! Chop that rope into exactly 10 000 000 equal parts. One of them is as long as a meter. Now you just need to find the right one.
Edit: more zeros.
A bit more than 90 centimetres, a bit less than 110. Somewhere in that ballpark.
Okay, so, right, okay. Um. In German schools (and probably some other countries...?), many many years ago (possibly still today? or maybe it's all digital now? what am I saying, this is German schools), the blackboard in every classroom was a large, green, rectangular middle part and two square "wings", one on each side (as wings are wont to be...). They can swing in and out, providing extra room for writing on the outer side of the wings. Also for extracurricular shenanigans such as writing "[name] + [name] = SEX" in the middle, swinging the wings closed to hide the writing and then breaking out into hysterics when the teacher opens the blackboard to reveal your incredibly highbrow joke.
This type of blackboard is quintessential to my recollections about and concept of school.
Why am I going into such unnecessary detail about this? I have ADHD and possibly autism, I need you to understand what I'm saying and I can't find any sources of this existing in the English speaking world and I can't find an English word for those "wings" either. I can barely find a German one ("Tafelflügel"? I don't think it's ever come up before in my life).
So here's a picture:
The width/height of the "wings" and the height of the middle part, that's a metre. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
The distance light travels when it goes one meter.
About ten minutes, wait, what was the question?
3 1/3 Subway sandwiches
About twice as long as half of its length
About 4 stacked house cats, or a bit longer than a 3-year-old.
A bit shorter than a (parking) meter.
The square root of a square meter
take a meter stick, now cut it in half. glue it back together. a meter is probably a little bit longer than this since you lost some material cutting.
Enough thread for 10 to 15 stitches.
It is exactly one half of two meters.
I think we can agree there are large and short meters. So everyone is right.
About this long holds palms one meter apart.
5.618 Bananas
Gas meter or water meter?
The distance that light travels in about a three hundred millionth of a second. Wait, that's just the actual definition.
About the length of a golden retriever
Same length as a string.
approximately 1.06 × 10⁻⁷ nanolightyears
About 0.59 Smoots
if the meter is dramatic, could be 5 feet.
3 feet + a snickers bar
Or if I feel the need to be rude toward a man: 3 feet + your penis
About 2 bushels and a peck.
One-half a Darth Vader.
The distance between the first line in a hopscotch game and where I would put the top line of the [4, 5] block.
About as wide as my oversized fridge.
Can't wait to get rid of that shit and have something that actually fits in my kitchen.
Around 2 cats long
It's approximately 100 quarts per square foot.
It's more than less than a meter but less than more than a meter.
One universe across, depending on your frame of reference
It takes 20s for falling cherry blossom petal to travel.
Five pounds.
About a yard.
From the tip of your right thumb to your left nipple. Too sensible?
Shorter than a dozen football fields
The carpet I'm standing on. No, I'm not giving you any pictures.
It's about as close as I'm comfortable standing to a stranger
There are 5 meters in one Iambic pentameter, so one meter is 0.2 of those.
about 33 AU's
