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A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi 3 [1]) is an imperial and US customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (1.6 km ) length, giving a volume of 1 cubic mile (4.2 km 3 ).
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 US customary system has one ...
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One cubic metre, one kilolitre or one stère—volume of a large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions) 3.85 × 10 1: External volume of a standard 20-foot ("TEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 33.1 cubic metres 7.7 × 10 1: External volume of a standard 40-foot ("FEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 67.5 cubic metres
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In specific contexts, a separate mile might be used. Sailors used a nautical or geographical mile (geografische mijl) based on varying divisions of an equatorial degree. The traditional version was identical to the German and Scandinavian nautical mile of 4 minutes of arc— 1 / 15 of an equatorial degree—or about 7.4 km.
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