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  2. Cubic yard - Wikipedia

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    A cubic yard (symbol yd 3) [1] is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in Canada and the United States. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard (3 feet , 36 inches , 0.9144 meters ) in length .

  3. Olympic-size swimming pool - Wikipedia

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    About 2 acre-feet or 2.952 quattuordecillionths of a cubic light-year. There must be two spaces 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) wide outside lanes 1 and 8 (in effect, two empty lanes). [ 3 ] The length of 50 metres (164 ft) must be between the touch pads at the end of each lane, if they are used. [ 3 ]

  4. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A traditional unit of volume for stone and other masonry. A perch of masonry is the volume of a stone wall one perch (16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet or 5.03 metres) long, 18 inches (45.7 cm) high, and 12 inches (30.5 cm) thick. This is equivalent to exactly 24 + 3 ⁄ 4 cubic feet (0.92 cubic yards; 0.70 cubic metres; 700 litres).

  5. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The cubic inch, cubic foot and cubic yard are commonly used for measuring volume. In addition, there is one group of units for measuring volumes of liquids (based on the wine gallon and subdivisions of the fluid ounce ), and one for measuring volumes of dry material , each with their own names and sub-units.

  6. Yard - Wikipedia

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    The term, yard derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd etc., which was used for branches, staves and measuring rods. [5] It is first attested in the late 7th century laws of Ine of Wessex, [6] where the "yard of land" mentioned [6] is the yardland, an old English unit of tax assessment equal to 1 ⁄ 4 hide.

  7. Template:Convert - Wikipedia

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    cubic yard: cuyd cu yd 1.0 cu yd (0.76 m 3) cubic foot: cuft (cufoot) cu ft long code "cufoot" outputs cubic foot (and never feet) 1.0 cu ft (0.028 m 3) cubic inch: cuin cu in 1.0 cu in (16 cm 3) Imperial: imperial barrel: impbbl imp bbl 36 imp gal 1.0 imp bbl (160 L; 36 imp gal; 43 US gal) imperial bushel: impbsh imp bsh 8 imp gal

  8. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    As the name suggests, an acre-foot is defined as the volume of one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot.. Since an acre is defined as a chain by a furlong (i.e. 66 ft × 660 ft or 20.12 m × 201.17 m), an acre-foot is 43,560 cubic feet (1,233.5 m 3).

  9. Category:Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    Cubic foot; Cubic inch; Cubic mile; Cubic yard; Cup (unit) D. Degree (angle) Dram (unit) E. English units; ... This page was last edited on 10 September 2023, at 17: ...