Cubic yard

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 meters in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

Cubic yard per second

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

Cubic yard per minute

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

Conversions

1 cubic yard 
= 27 cubic feet
= 46656 cubic inches
= 0.764554857984 cubic metres
1.83426465×10−10 cubic miles
21.0223197 imperial bushels
21.6962157 US bushels
168.178557 imperial gallons
≈ 201.974 US liquid gallons
4.80890476 crude barrels
≈ 764.5549 litres

See also

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