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Today, most of the world prefers metric measurement by weight, [3] though the preference for volume measurements continues among home cooks in the United States [4] [5] and the rest of North America. Different ingredients are measured in different ways: Liquid ingredients are generally measured by volume worldwide.
Unit of measure cubic metre litre Reference size Usage 1 cubic metre = 1 = 1000: base unit in SI 1 barrel = 0.158 987 294 928 = 158.987294928 = 42 US gallons = 9,702 cubic inches: e. g. for oil: 1 cubic foot = 0.028 316 846 592 = 28.316864592 = 1,728 cubic inches: 1 cubic decimetre = 0.001 = 1: 1 litre = 0.001 = 1: 1 gallon (US) = 0.003 785 411 ...
Volume may be measured either in terms of units of cubic length or with specific volume units. The units of cubic length (the cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic mile, etc.) are the same in the imperial and US customary systems, but they differ in their specific units of volume (the bushel, gallon, fluid ounce, etc.).
The Winchester quart is an archaic measure, [10] equal to 1 ⁄ 16 of a Winchester bushel: this is equal to 134.40126 cubic inches or 1.9378781 imperial quarts or 2.2024420 litres. The 2.5 L bottles in which laboratory chemicals are supplied are sometimes referred to as Winchester quart bottles , although these contain 13.5% more than a ...
Modern measurements of Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water, which is pure distilled water with an isotopic composition representative of the average of the world's oceans, show that it has a density of 0.999 975 ± 0.000 001 kg/L at its point of maximum density (3.984 °C) under one standard atmosphere (101.325 kPa) of pressure.
The mutchkin (Scottish Gaelic: mùisgein) was a Scottish unit of liquid volume measurement that was in use from at least 1661 (and possibly as early as the 15th century) until the late 19th century, approximately equivalent to 424 mL, or roughly 3 ⁄ 4 imperial pint. The word was derived from mutse – a mid 15th-century Dutch measure of beer ...
It may be that all English-unit derived capacity measurements are derived from one original approximate measurement: the mouthful, consisting of about 1 ⁄ 2 ounce, called the ro in ancient Egypt (their smallest recognized unit of capacity). [4] [5] The mouthful was still a unit of liquid measure during Elizabethan times. [6]
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used.