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A million meters, casually flexing—because kilometers were getting nervous about commitment.
means A unit of length equal to one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.
from From Greek megas (great) plus metron (measure); built like all metric units, by stacking prefixes onto the meter until distances feel less terrifying.
Earth scaleEarth's diameter is about 12.7 megameters.
Rarely usedScientists prefer kilometers; megameters mostly lurk in textbooks.
SymbolWritten Mm, with a capital M for mega.