A yard (abbreviation: yd) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. Its size can vary from system to system. The most commonly used yard today is the international yard. A yard is three feet or 36 inches. A corresponding unit of area is the square yard. The yard is often used to express distances.
International yard
The international yard is equal to 0.9144 metres. The definition of the international yard was agreed by the United States and the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1958.
In the United Kingdom, the use of the international yard was implemented in the Weights and Measures Act 1963. Section 1(1) provided: "The yard or the metre shall be the unit of measurement of length and the pound or the kilogram shall be the unit of measurement of mass by reference to which any measurement involving a measurement of length or mass shall be made in the United Kingdom; and— (a) the yard shall be 0·9144 metre exactly;(b) the pound shall be 0·453 592 37 kilogram exactly."
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