Welcome to the MedLibrary.org Wikipedia Supplement on Cubic yard -- Please Click to Return to Front Page

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.

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

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

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

Wikipedia content modification information:

• This page was last modified on 6 August 2008, at 12:21.

Wikipedia Authorship and Review

Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.

Wikipedia Usage Guidelines

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Cubic yard".

The URL for this specific entry is:

• http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Cubic_yard

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.