Cubic yard
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A GRW ballast wagon with a volume of 8 cubic yards | |
General information | |
Unit system | Imperial and US customary |
Unit of | Volume |
Symbol | yd3, cu yd |
Conversions | |
1 yd3 in ... | ... is equal to ... |
SI units | 0.7645549 m3 |
Imperial and US customary | 27 ft3 |
A cubic yard (symbol yd3)[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.
Symbols and abbreviations
The IEEE symbol for the cubic yard is yd3.[1] The following abbreviations are used:
- cubic yards, cubic yard, cubic yds, cubic yd
- cu yards, cu yard, cu yds, cu yd, CYs
- yards/-3, yard/-3, yds/-3, yd/-3
- yards^3, yard^3, yds^3, yd^3
- yards3, yard3, yds3
Cubic yard per second
One cubic yard per second (1 yd3/s) is a unit of volume flow rate. It corresponds to one cubic yard passing through a specified area every second.
Cubic yard per minute
One cubic yard per minute (1 yd3/min) is a unit of volume flow rate. It corresponds to one cubic yard passing through a specified area every minute.
- 1 yd3/s = 60 yd3/min
Conversions
1 cubic yard |
= 27 cubic feet |
= 46656 cubic inches |
= 0.764554857984 cubic metres |
≈ 1.83426465×10−10 cubic miles |
≈ 21.0223197 imperial bushels |
≈ 21.6962157 US bushels |
≈ 168.178557 imperial gallons |
≈ 201.974 US liquid gallons |
≈ 4.80890476 crude barrels |
≈ 764.5549 litres |
See also
- cubic foot
- cubic inch
- Square yard
- Orders of magnitude (volume)
- Conversion of units
- Cube (arithmetic), cube root
References
- ^ a b IEEE Std 260.1-2004
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- Twip
- Thousandth of an inch
- Barleycorn
- Inch
- Hand
- Link
- Foot
- Yard
- Fathom
- Rod
- Chain
- Gunter's chain
- Furlong
- Cable
- Mile
- Nautical mile
- League
- Square inch
- Square foot
- Square yard
- Perch
- Rood
- Acre
- Square mile
Derived |
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Other |
- Grain
- Drachm
- Ounce
- Pound (mass)
- Stone
- Quarter
- Slug
- Long hundred
- Hundredweight
- Ship load
- Ton
- British thermal unit
- Degree
- Fahrenheit
- Rankine
- Foot-candle
- Foot-pound
- Foot-poundal
- Horsepower
- Horsepower-hour
- Kenning
- Pound (force)
- Pound-foot
- Poundal
- Span
- Spinning count