Question

What is the difference between running meter and meter ?

Answer 1

Hint: The running meter is generally used in our day to day life such in cloth stores whereas meter is a metric unit.The metric system is a measurement that basically uses the meter, Litre, and gram as base units for length (or distance), capacity (or volume) and weight (or mass) respectively.

Complete answer:
Length can be measured using Millimeter (mm), Decimeter (dm), Centimeter (cm), Meter (m) and Kilometer (km). They are generally used to measure how wide or long or tall an object is. Weight can be measured using Gram (g) and Kilogram(kg). They are generally used to measure how heavy an object is, using some specified instruments. Capacity can be measured using Millilitre (ml) and Litre (l). They are generally used to measure how much quantity of liquid an object can hold without any issue.

Some general Facts:
-$1000$ kilograms is called a tonne.
-The metric system originated back in $1670$ by a mathematician known as Gabriel Mouton.
-The very easy way to remember the prefixes of the metric is just to remember the phrase “King Henry Died of Drinking Cold Milk”.
-There are units which are greater than the kilo as well. These have prefixes commonly referred as mega, giga and tera. A mega is $1000$ times of a kilo and a giga is $1000$ times of mega. Also, a tera is $1000$ times of what a giga is.

A meter is nothing but the base unit of length and distance in the International System of units. Here, $1\,m$ = $100\,cm$.The running metre is basically the measurement of length used by someone like textile producers and retailers to sell rolls of fabric. Here, the width does not play much role as it is already specified. So we buy a running metre or $4.19$ metres of cloth in a shop. It means that we have bought one metre of long cloth for the particular specified width and the cost is defined on the basis of the running length (meter).

Note: Measurement is the process of finding the length, size, or quantity of a substance. Since ancient times, people have used several ways to measure length. A physical quantity (like length) has to be measured with respect to some fixed quantity. Running meter does not consider the width of the object. It just depends on the running length.