Cubic yard

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

[edit] Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following 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, yd³

[edit] Conversions

1 cubic yard is equivalent to:

46 656 cubic inches
27 cubic feet
≈0.000000000183 cubic miles
≈21.6962157 U.S. bushels
≈201.974 U.S. liquid gallons
≈4.80890476 crude barrels
≈764.554858 litres
≈764 554 858 cubic millimetres
≈764 554.858 cubic centimetres
≈0.764544858 cubic metres
≈0.000000000764 cubic kilometres

[edit] See also

1 E-1 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
Square yard
Orders of magnitude (volume)
Conversion of units
Cube (arithmetic), cube root
- Cubic equation, cubic function

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