Cubic mile
Encyclopedia
A cubic mile is an imperial
/ U.S. customary (non-SI
non-metric
) unit of volume
, used in the United States
, Canada, and the United Kingdom
. It is defined as the volume of a cube
with sides of 1 mile
(5280 feet, 1760 yard
s, ≈1.609 kilometre
) in length
.
Imperial unit
The system of imperial units or the imperial system is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced. The system came into official use across the British Empire...
/ U.S. customary (non-SI
Si
Si, si, or SI may refer to :- Measurement, mathematics and science :* International System of Units , the modern international standard version of the metric system...
non-metric
Metric system
The metric system is an international decimalised system of measurement. France was first to adopt a metric system, in 1799, and a metric system is now the official system of measurement, used in almost every country in the world...
) unit of volume
Volume
Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by some closed boundary, for example, the space that a substance or shape occupies or contains....
, used in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Canada, and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. It is defined as the volume of a cube
Cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular parallelepiped and...
with sides of 1 mile
Mile
A mile is a unit of length, most commonly 5,280 feet . The mile of 5,280 feet is sometimes called the statute mile or land mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile...
(5280 feet, 1760 yard
Yard
A yard is a unit of length in several different systems including English units, Imperial units and United States customary units. It is equal to 3 feet or 36 inches...
s, ≈1.609 kilometre
Kilometre
The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second...
) in length
Length
In geometric measurements, length most commonly refers to the longest dimension of an object.In certain contexts, the term "length" is reserved for a certain dimension of an object along which the length is measured. For example it is possible to cut a length of a wire which is shorter than wire...
.
Symbols
There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:- cubic mile
- cu mile
- cu mi
- mile/-3
- mi/-3
- mile^3
- mi^3
- mile³
- mi³
Conversions
1 cubic mile is equivalent to:- 147,197,952,000 cubic feet
- 5,451,776,000 cubic yardCubic yardA cubic yard is an Imperial / U.S. customary 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.-Symbols:...
s - 118,282,962,000 U.S. bushelBushelA bushel is an imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 4 pecks or 8 gallons. It is used for volumes of dry commodities , most often in agriculture...
s - 1,101,117,140,000 U.S. liquid gallonGallonThe gallon is a measure of volume. Historically it has had many different definitions, but there are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon which is used in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States liquid gallon and the lesser used United States dry...
s - ≈26,217,074,761.905 crude barrelBarrelA barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of vertical wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. Traditionally, the barrel was a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. A small barrel is called a keg.For example, a...
s - 3,379,200 acre feet
- 4,168,181,825,440.579584 litreLitrepic|200px|right|thumb|One litre is equivalent to this cubeEach side is 10 cm1 litre water = 1 kilogram water The litre is a metric system unit of volume equal to 1 cubic decimetre , to 1,000 cubic centimetres , and to 1/1,000 cubic metre...
s (exactly) - 4,168,181,825.440579584 cubic metreCubic metreThe 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 metric prefixes, was the stère...
s - 4.168181825440579584 cubic kilometres
See also
- 1 E+9 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
- Square mileSquare mileThe square mile is an imperial and US unit of measure for an area equal to the area of a square of one statute 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 order of magnitude . Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand. -Notes:...
- Conversion of unitsConversion of unitsConversion of units is the conversion between different units of measurement for the same quantity, typically through multiplicative conversion factors.- Process :...
- Cube (arithmetic)Cube (arithmetic)In arithmetic and algebra, the cube of a number n is its third power — the result of the number multiplying by itself three times:...
, cube root- Cubic equation, cubic functionCubic functionIn mathematics, a cubic function is a function of the formf=ax^3+bx^2+cx+d,\,where a is nonzero; or in other words, a polynomial of degree three. The derivative of a cubic function is a quadratic function...
- Cubic equation, cubic function