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  2. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    A new measure, the imperial gallon, which replaced the many gallons in use, [Note 1] ... Square foot: sq ft or ft 2: 0.09290 m 2: Square yard: sq yd or yd 2: 9 sq ft ...

  3. 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).

  4. Cubic mile - Wikipedia

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    cubic feet = 3 379 200 acre-feet = 4.168 181 825 440 579 584 cubic kilometres: ≈ 916 871 822 916 imperial gallons: ≈ 1 101 117 140 000 US liquid gallons ≈ 114 608 977 865 imperial bushels: ≈ 118 282 962 000 US bushels ≈ 26 217 074 762 crude barrels

  5. Olympic-size swimming pool - Wikipedia

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    Less onerous breadth and depth regulations exist for lesser swimming competitions, but any "long course" event requires a course length of 50 metres (164 ft 0.5 in), as distinct from "short course" which applies to competitions in pools that are 25 metres (82 ft 0 in) in length (or 75 feet (22.9 m) in the United States). If touch pads are used ...

  6. English units - Wikipedia

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    The acre went from 36,000 old square feet to 43,560 new square feet. ... 4 — Barrel to contain 36 gallons of beer or 32 of ale; kilderkin is half of this; firkin is ...

  7. Bushel - Wikipedia

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    8 imperial gallons ... ≡ 1 ⁠ 21121 / 86400 ⁠ cubic feet Weight. A table of weights from the secretaries of the different states, ...

  8. Nonresidential water use in the U.S. - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a sample of 706 hotels in New York City, average daily water use intensity in 2011 ranged from 60 to 456 gallons per 1000 square feet (g/ksf/d), with the median use of 215 g/ksf/d. [11] In other areas the median use per 1000 square feet were reported at: 257 gallons in Florida, [10] and 219 gallons in Austin, Texas. [11]

  9. Cubic foot - Wikipedia

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    The cubic foot (symbol ft 3 or cu ft) [1] is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot ( 0.3048 m ) in length , or exactly 28.316 846 592 L, which is very close to ⁠ 1 / 35 ⁠ of a cubic metre ).