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The hectometre (SI symbol: hm), spelled hectometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one hundred metres and to one tenth of a kilometre. The word comes from a combination of "metre" and the SI prefix "hecto-", meaning "hundred". It is not commonly used in English. A football field (either soccer or American football) is approximately 1 hectometre in length. The hectare (ha), a common metric unit for land area, is equal to one square hectometre (hm2).
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- hectometre
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- File:Kheops-Pyramid.jpg
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- The Great Pyramid of Giza is 137.7 metres high, which is 1.377 hectometres.
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- hm
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- length
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- wd:Q844338 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
- conversion to standard unit
- 0.06213711922373339
- conversion to SI unit
- 100
- unit symbol
- hm
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The hectometre (SI symbol: hm), spelled hectometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one hundred metres and to one tenth of a kilometre. The word comes from a combination of "metre" and the SI prefix "hecto-", meaning "hundred". It is not commonly used in English. A football field (either soccer or American football) is approximately 1 hectometre in length. The hectare (ha), a common metric unit for land area, is equal to one square hectometre (hm2).
The hectometre has sometimes been used for expressing the distance to a target in warfare.