Fathom conversions
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About fathom
The fathom is a unit of length in the Imperial and US customary systems of units equal to 1.8288 meters (1 ftm = 1.8288 m), the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).
1 fathom (ftm) is also equal to 0.0018288 kilometers (km) (an SI unit of length), or approximately 6 feet (ft), or 72 inches (in) or 2 yards (yd), which are US customary / Imperial units of length.
The fathom is used especially for measuring the depth of water.
Symbol: ftm
Plural: fathoms
Also called: fathme
Fathom conversions: a list with conversions from fathoms to other (metric, imperial, or customary) length and distance measurement units is shown below.
- fathom to angstrom (ftm to Å)
- fathom to astronomical unit (ftm to AU)
- fathom to Bohr radius (ftm to a0)
- fathom to cable (International)
- fathom to cable (UK)
- fathom to cable (US)
- fathom to centimeter (ftm to cm)
- fathom to chain (ftm to ch)
- fathom to cubit
- fathom to decameter (ftm to dam)
- fathom to decimeter (ftm to dm)
- fathom to Earth radius (ftm to RE)
- fathom to Earth-Moon distance
- fathom to Earth-Sun distance
- fathom to femtometer (ftm to fm)
- fathom to fermi (ftm to fm)
- fathom to foot (ftm to ft)
- fathom to furlong (ftm to fur)
- fathom to hectometer (ftm to hm)
- fathom to inch (ftm to in)
- fathom to kilometer (ftm to km)
- fathom to league (ftm to lea)
- fathom to light-day
- fathom to light-hour
- fathom to light-minute
- fathom to light-second
- fathom to light-year (ftm to ly)
- fathom to meter (ftm to m)
- fathom to micrometer (ftm to μm)
- fathom to micron (ftm to μ)
- fathom to mil
- fathom to mile (ftm to mi)
- fathom to millimeter (ftm to mm)
- fathom to nanometer (ftm to nm)
- fathom to nautical league
- fathom to nautical mile (ftm to nmi)
- fathom to parsec (ftm to pc)
- fathom to picometer (ftm to pm)
- fathom to Plank length
- fathom to quarter
- fathom to rod (ftm to rd)
- fathom to yard (ftm to yd)