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| Cubic yard | |
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| General information | |
| Unit system | Imperial and US customary |
| Unit of | Volume |
| Symbol | yd3, cu yd |
| Conversions | |
| 1 yd3in ... | ... is equal to ... |
| SI units | 0.764554857984 m3 |
| Imperial and US customary | 27 ft3 |
Acubic yard (symbolyd3)[1] is animperial /U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit ofvolume used in Canada and the United States. It is defined as the volume of acube with sides of 1yard (3feet, 36inches, 0.9144meters) inlength.
TheIEEE symbol for the cubic yard is yd3.[1] A non-standard abbreviation is cu yd.
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.
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 cubic yard |
| ≡ 27cubic feet |
| ≡46656cubic inches |
| ≡764.554857984litres |
| ≈21.0223197 imperialbushels |
| ≡21+74859/107521 US bushels |
| ≈168.1785574 imperialgallons |
| ≡201+75/77 US gallons |
| ≡4+436/539 oilbarrels |