The yard is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it is by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile. The US survey yard is very slightly longer.

What is yards slang for?

A "yard" is a financial slang term meaning one billion. It is used to avoid confusion with the words million or trillion when making a trade. The term is often used in currency trading. ... Someone who buys a yard of U.S. dollars is purchasing one billion dollars.

What does Yards mean in math?

A unit of length (or distance) in US units equal to 3 feet or 36 inches. The abbreviation is: yd. Example: 5 yards can be written 5 yd. One yard is exactly 0.9144 meters in the Metric System (the yard is defined that way). Example: 5 yd = 4.572 m.