Cubic metre

Cubic Metre

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Cubic metre

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The cubic metre (US spelling: cubic meter, symbol: m³) is the SI derived unit

SI derived unit

SI derived units are part of the SI system of measurement Units of measurements and are derived from the seven SI base units.Note that while the names of all SI units are in lowercase, the symbols of units named after people are written with an initial capital letter ....
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....
. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre

Metre

The metre or meter is a Unit of measurement of length. It is the SI base unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units , used around the world for general and scientific purposes....
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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CM3 redirects here. If you were looking for the 3rd game in the Cooking Mama series, abbreviated as CM3, see here

Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends

Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends is the sequel to the Nintendo DS video game Cooking Mama and its Wii successor, Cooking Mama: Cook Off....
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The cubic metre (US spelling: cubic meter, symbol: m³) is the SI derived unit

SI derived unit

Volume

Metre

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....
. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with metric prefixes

SI prefix

An SI prefix is a name or associated symbol that precedes a basic unit of measure to form a decimal multiple . The abbreviation SI is from the French language name Syst?me International d?Unit?s ....
, was the stère. Another alternative name, not widely used any more, is the kilolitre.

Conversions

1 cubic metre is equivalent to:

1,000 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 (exactly);
~35.3 cubic feet
Cubic foot

The cubic foot is an Imperial unit and United States customary units 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 one foot in length.|-...
(approximately)

1 cu ft = m³ (exactly)

~1.31 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....
s (approximately)

1 cu yd = m³ (exactly)

~6.29 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 (approximately)

1 oil bbl = m³ (exactly)

A cubic metre of pure water

Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
at the temperature of maximum density (3.98 °C

Celsius

Celsius is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death....
) and standard atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure is sometimes defined as the force per unit area exerted against a surface by the weight of air above that surface at any given point in the Earth's atmosphere....
(101.325 kPa) has a mass

Mass

In physical science, mass refers to the degree of acceleration a body acquires when subject to a force: bodies with greater mass are accelerated less by the same force....
of 1000 kg

Kilogram

The kilogram or kilogrammeThe spelling kilogram is used by the International Committee for Weights and Measures and the U.S....
, or one tonne

Tonne

A tonne or metric ton , also referred to as a metric tonne, is a measurement of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms, or 2204.6226 pounds....
. At 0 °C, the freezing point of water, it is slightly less, 999.972 kilograms.

It is sometimes abbreviated to cu m, m3, m^3 or m**3 when superscript character

Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing. Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol, whether interchangeable or context-dependent, are called allographs; the abstract unit they are variants of is called a grapheme or character ....
s or markup

Markup language

A markup language is a set of codes that give instructions regarding the structure of a text or how it is to be displayed. Markup languages have been in use for centuries, and in recent years have been used in computer typesetting and word-processing systems to specify the formatting, layout, structure, and other elements of a document....
cannot be used (i.e. in some typewritten documents and postings in Usenet

Usenet

Usenet, a portmanteau of "user" and "network", is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It evolved from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name....
newsgroups).

Abbreviated CBM in the freight business and MTQ (or numeric code 49) in international trade.

Multiples and submultiples

See 1 E-3 m³

1 E-3 m³

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists volumes between at 10-3 cubic metre and 10-2 m? . See also orders of magnitude ....
for a comparison with other volumes.

Multiples

Cubic decameter

the volume of a cube of side length one decametre (10 m)

equal to a megalitre

1 dam³ = 1,000 m³ = 1 ML

Cubic hectometre

the volume of a cube of side length one hectometre (100 m)

equal to a gigalitre

1 hm³ = 1,000,000 m³ = 1 GL

Cubic kilometre

the volume of a cube of side length one kilometre (1,000 m)

equal to a teralitre

1 km³ = 1,000,000,000 m³ = 1 TL

Submultiples

Cubic decimeter

the volume of a cube of side length one decimetre (0.1 m)

equal to a litre

1 dm³ = 0.001 m³ = 1 L

Cubic centimetre

the volume of a cube of side length one centimetre (0.01 m)

equal to a millilitre

1 cm³ = 0.000001 m³ = 1 mL

Cubic millimetre

the volume of a cube of side length one millimetre (0.001 m)

equal to a microlitre

1 mm³ = 0.000000001 m³ = 1 µL