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A cubic mile 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....
 / U.S. customary (non-SI
Si

Si, si, or SI may refer to :...
 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
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. 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 1 mile
Mile

A mile is a Units of measurement of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems. In contemporary English contexts, mile most commonly refers to the statute mile of 5,280 Feet or the nautical mile of 1,852 meters ....
 (5280 feet, 1760 yard
Yard

A yard is a Units of measurement of length in several different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units....
s, ˜1.609 kilometre
Kilometre

The kilometre , symbol km is a Units of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres.Slang terms for kilometre include click and kay ....
) 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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A cubic mile 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....
 / U.S. customary (non-SI
Si

Si, si, or SI may refer to :...
 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
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. 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 1 mile
Mile

A mile is a Units of measurement of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems. In contemporary English contexts, mile most commonly refers to the statute mile of 5,280 Feet or the nautical mile of 1,852 meters ....
 (5280 feet, 1760 yard
Yard

A yard is a Units of measurement of length in several different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units....
s, ˜1.609 kilometre
Kilometre

The kilometre , symbol km is a Units of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres.Slang terms for kilometre include click and kay ....
) 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....
.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
  • cubic mile
  • cu mile
  • cu mi
  • cu m (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
  • mile/-3
  • mi/-3
  • m/-3 (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
  • mile^3
  • mi^3
  • m^3 (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
  • mile³
  • mi³
  • (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used ["m is rarely used": blatant nonsense for m with and without exponent 3
    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....
    ]


Conversions

1 cubic mile is equivalent to:
  • 147,197,952,000 cubic feet
  • 5,451,776,000 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
  • 118,282,962,000 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
  • 1,101,117,140,000 U.S. liquid 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
  • ˜26,217,074,761.905 crude barrel
    Barrel

    A barrel or cask is a hollow Cylinder container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. The term "barrel" typically refers to wooden vessels that are small enough to be moved by hand, up to puncheon size ....
    s
  • 3,379,200 acre feet


  • 4,168,181,825,440.579584 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)
  • 4,168,181,825.440579584 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
  • 4.168181825440579584 cubic kilometres


See also

  • 1 E+9 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
  • Square mile
    Square mile

    The square mile is an Imperial system and US customary system of measure for an area equal to the area of a square of one mile. It should not be confused with miles square, which refers to the number of miles on each side squared....
  • 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....
    • Cubic equation, cubic function
      Cubic function

      In mathematics, a cubic function is a function of the formwhere a is nonzero; or in other words, a polynomial of Degree of a polynomial three....