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The cubic foot is an imperial
Imperial unit

Imperial units or the imperial system is a system of units, first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, later refined and reduced....
 and US customary
United States customary units

The United States Customary System for units of measurement, also known in the United States as English, Imperial or standard units, is the primary and most commonly-used system of units of measurement in the United States....
 (non-metric
Metric system

The metric system is an international decimalised systems of measurement, founded by France in 1791, that is the common system of Unit of measurement used by most of the world....
) unit of volume
Volume

The volume of any solid, liquid, plasma, vacuum or theoretical object is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically....
, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube
Cube

A cube is a three-dimensional space solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each wikt:vertex. The cube can also be called a Regular polyhedron hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids....
 with sides of one foot (0.3048 m) in length
Length

Length is the long dimension of any object. The length of a thing is the distance between its ends, its linear extent as measured from end to end....
.
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=28.316846592 litre
Litre

The litre or liter is a unit of volume. There are two official symbols: the Latin letter L in lower and upper case . The lower case L is often written as a cursive l to avoid confusion with the number 1 in antiqua fonts....
s
= US fluid gallon
Gallon

A gallon is a measure of volume of approximately four litres. Historically it has had many different definitions, but there are three definitions in current use....
s
 
˜ 7.48051948 US fl gal
= US fluid ounce
Fluid ounce

A fluid ounce is a unit of volume in both the Imperial unit and the United States customary units systems. It is common to refer to the unit simply as an ounce, especially in cases where no confusion with the unit of mass is likely to occur....
s
˜ 957.50649350 US fl oz
˜ 6.22883546 imperial gallons
˜ 996.61367 imperial fluid ounces
˜ 0.803563913 U.S.






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The cubic foot is an imperial
Imperial unit

Imperial units or the imperial system is a system of units, first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, later refined and reduced....
 and US customary
United States customary units

The United States Customary System for units of measurement, also known in the United States as English, Imperial or standard units, is the primary and most commonly-used system of units of measurement in the United States....
 (non-metric
Metric system

The metric system is an international decimalised systems of measurement, founded by France in 1791, that is the common system of Unit of measurement used by most of the world....
) unit of volume
Volume

The volume of any solid, liquid, plasma, vacuum or theoretical object is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically....
, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube
Cube

A cube is a three-dimensional space solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each wikt:vertex. The cube can also be called a Regular polyhedron hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids....
 with sides of one foot (0.3048 m) in length
Length

Length is the long dimension of any object. The length of a thing is the distance between its ends, its linear extent as measured from end to end....
.
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1 cubic foot = 1728 cubic inch
Cubic inch

A cubic inch is a non-International System of Units Units of measurement of volume, equal to the volume of a cube with sides of one inch.Cubic inches are still sometimes used as a unit of measurement in the United States and Canada, although SI is continuing to gradually displace non-SI usage....
es
= of a cubic yard
Cubic yard

A cubic yard is an Imperial unit / U.S. customary unit 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 in length....
 ˜ 0.037037 cu yd
=0.028316846592 cubic metre
Cubic metre

The cubic metre is the SI derived unit of volume. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with SI prefix, was the st?re....
s
=28.316846592 litre
Litre

The litre or liter is a unit of volume. There are two official symbols: the Latin letter L in lower and upper case . The lower case L is often written as a cursive l to avoid confusion with the number 1 in antiqua fonts....
s
= US fluid gallon
Gallon

A gallon is a measure of volume of approximately four litres. Historically it has had many different definitions, but there are three definitions in current use....
s
 
˜ 7.48051948 US fl gal
= US fluid ounce
Fluid ounce

A fluid ounce is a unit of volume in both the Imperial unit and the United States customary units systems. It is common to refer to the unit simply as an ounce, especially in cases where no confusion with the unit of mass is likely to occur....
s
˜ 957.50649350 US fl oz
˜ 6.22883546 imperial gallons
˜ 996.61367 imperial fluid ounces
˜ 0.803563913 U.S. bushel
Bushel

A bushel is a unit of dry measure, usually subdivided into eight local gallons in the systems of Imperial units and U.S. customary units. It is used for volumes of dry measure commodity, not liquids, most often in agriculture....
s
˜ 0.1781076 oil barrel
Barrel (unit)

The barrel is the name of several units of measurement of volume, generally in the range of about 100-200 L ....
s


Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
  • cubic feet, cubic foot, cubic ft
  • cu ft, cu feet, cu foot
  • ft³, feet³, foot³
  • feet^3, foot^3, ft^3
  • feet/-3, foot/-3, ft/-3 ft


  • CCF for 100 cubic feet (C denotes centum, hundred. Used in the billing of natural gas and water delivered to households.)
  • MCF for 1,000 cubic feet (M denotes mil, thousand)
  • MMCF for
  • MMCFD for millions of cubic feet per day.
  • BCF for a billion cubic feet
  • TCF for a trillion cubic feet.


Standard cubic foot

A standard cubic foot
Standard cubic foot

A standard cubic foot is a measure of quantity of gas, equal to a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and either 14.696 Pound-force per square inch or 14.73 psi of pressure....
 (abbreviated scf) is a measure of quantity of gas, sometimes but not always defined as a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit , who proposed it in 1724. Today, the scale has largely been replaced by the Celsius scale; it is still in use for non-scientific purposes in the United States and a few other countries such as Belize....
 and 14.7 pounds per square inch (PSI) of pressure
Pressure

Pressure is the force per unit area applied to an object in a direction surface normal to the surface. Gauge pressure is the pressure relative to the local atmospheric or ambient pressure....
. See standard temperature and pressure.

See also

  • 1 E-2 m³
    1 E-2 m³

    To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists volumes between 0.01 and 0.1 cubic metre . See also orders of magnitude .*1 E-3 m?...
     for a comparison with other volumes
  • Orders of magnitude (volume)
    Orders of magnitude (volume)

    The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of volumes that are of the same orders of magnitude . Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand....
  • Conversion of units
    Conversion of units

    Conversion of units refers to conversion factors between different units of measurement for the same quantity....
  • Cube (arithmetic)
    Cube (arithmetic)

    In arithmetic and algebra, the cube of a number n is its third exponentiation — the result of multiplying it by itself three times:...
    , cube root
    Cube root

    In mathematics, a cube root of a number, denoted or x1/3, is a number a such that a3 = x. All real numbers have exactly one real number cube root and a pair of complex conjugate roots, and all nonzero complex numbers have three distinct complex cube roots....
  • Square foot
    Square foot

    The square foot is an imperial unit / U.S. customary unit of area, used mainly in the United States and United Kingdom. It is defined as the area of a Square with sides of 1 foot in length....