Yards to Meters Converter - Version 1 Need a quick and easy way to visually discover the difference between yards and meters? Yards to Meters Converter is the way to go! Simply watch conversions appear before your eyes as you slide up and down the measurement scale! Its that easy. You will soon discover general relations between yards and meters visually. Yards to Meters Converter is a great tool for both teacher and student alike! Originally, the meter was one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. Later defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of a krypton-86 atom. In 1983, defined as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second. Some believe that a yard came from the length of a stride. Others believe that it was the distance from King Henry's nose to the end of his thumb.