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  • Thumbnail for Cubic metre
    international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or cubic meter (in American English) is the unit of volume in the International...
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    volume of a cube that measures 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm. One cubic centimetre corresponds to a volume of one millilitre. The mass of one cubic centimetre of water...
    3 KB (201 words) - 16:29, 20 March 2024
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    Litre (redirect from Cubic decimetre)
    unit—the SI unit of volume is the cubic metre (m3). The spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures is "litre", a spelling which is...
    30 KB (3,023 words) - 17:35, 9 May 2024
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    Volume (redirect from Cubic length)
    Volume is a measure of regions in three-dimensional space. It is often quantified numerically using SI derived units (such as the cubic metre and litre)...
    26 KB (2,880 words) - 22:23, 26 May 2024
  • The cubic ton is a measure of volume. It is considered obsolete in the United Kingdom and is now used primarily in the United States. A mass-derived unit...
    2 KB (260 words) - 23:15, 1 April 2024
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    (about 1⁄35 of a cubic metre). The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot is ft3. The following abbreviations are used: cubic feet, cubic foot, cubic ft, cu feet,...
    8 KB (650 words) - 22:11, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kilogram per cubic metre
    of a cubic centimetre of water. In chemistry, g/cm3 is more commonly used. Gram per cubic centimetre International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006)...
    3 KB (232 words) - 04:38, 31 October 2023
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    one of the measures often used in advertising, as well as regulating, motor vehicles. It is usually expressed using the metric units of cubic centimetres...
    6 KB (785 words) - 16:02, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States customary units
    "take all appropriate measures within their authority" to use the metric system "as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade...
    48 KB (4,366 words) - 12:24, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of measurement
    standardized weights and measures became critical. Starting in the 18th century, modernized, simplified and uniform systems of weights and measures were developed...
    16 KB (2,225 words) - 00:48, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cubic inch
    The cubic inch (symbol in3) is a unit of volume in the Imperial units and United States customary units systems. It is the volume of a cube with each...
    5 KB (524 words) - 22:52, 4 February 2024
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    831600 cubic metres. Floors one to eight can be approximated as 4300 square metres (from [1]) times 8 times 4.2 metres, or an additional 134400 cubic metres...
    36 KB (652 words) - 01:48, 21 May 2024
  • A standard cubic foot (scf) is a unit representing the amount of gas (such as natural gas) contained in a volume of one cubic foot at reference temperature...
    9 KB (1,103 words) - 19:27, 3 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Imperial and US customary measurement systems
    units of measure in use in the United Kingdom. The British Weights and Measures Act of 1824 repealed all existing British weights and measures legislation...
    82 KB (8,874 words) - 22:34, 14 May 2024
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    million) times the area of 1 square metre, and 1 cubic kilometre is (103)3 (109, one billion) cubic metres. The square metre may be used with all SI prefixes...
    5 KB (309 words) - 05:06, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weights and Measures Acts (UK)
    Weights and Measures Acts are acts of the British Parliament determining the regulation of weights and measures. It also refers to similar royal and parliamentary...
    124 KB (6,789 words) - 21:27, 28 May 2024
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    measuring length is the metre. The SI unit of volume is thus the cubic metre, which is a derived unit, where: 1 m3 = 1 m • 1 m • 1 m. Hoppus, cubic foot...
    4 KB (241 words) - 00:48, 30 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Metric system
    known frequency. The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one cubic decimetre of water at 4 °C, standardized as the mass of a man-made artefact...
    38 KB (4,588 words) - 19:56, 26 May 2024
  • predates World War I. Another common explanation is that "nine yards" is a cubic measure and refers to the volume of a concrete mixer. This theory, too, is inconsistent...
    25 KB (3,149 words) - 22:38, 21 March 2024
  • Bureau of Weights and Measures. Retrieved 2017-03-05. "H.R. 596, An Act to authorize the use of the metric system of weights and measures". 29th Congress of...
    32 KB (3,749 words) - 06:25, 30 May 2024
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