Cubic foot

 ( Units Of Volume ) 

The cubic foot (symbol ft³ or cu ft)

[1], , . is an Imperial unit and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot () in length, or exactly , which is very close to of a cubic metre).

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Conversions

1 cubic foot	≡ 1728
	≡ of a cubic yard
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	≡ US
	≡ US
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	≡ US
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	≡ oil barrel

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Symbols and abbreviations The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot is ft³. The following abbreviations are used: cubicfeet, cubicfoot, cubicft, cufeet, cufoot, cuft, cu.ft, cuft, cbft, cb.ft, cbft, cbf, feet, foot, ft, feet/-3, foot/-3, ft/-3.

Larger multiples are in common usage in commerce and industry in the United States:

• CCF or HCF: (Latin hundred) cubic feet; i.e.,
• Used in the billing of natural gas and water delivered to households.
• MCF: (Latin thousand) cubic feet; i.e.,
• MMCF: Mille mille (= million) cubic feet; i.e.,
• MMCFD: MMCF per day; i.e., /d
• Used in the oil industry.
• BCF or TMC: Billion or thousand million cubic feet; i.e.,
• Tmcft is usually used for referring to storage capacity and actual storage volume of storage dams.
• TCF: Trillion cubic feet; i.e.,
• Used in the oil and gas industry.

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Cubic foot per second and related flow rates The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot per second is ft³/s. The following other abbreviations are also sometimes used:

• ft³/sec
• cu ft/s
• cfs or CFS
• cusec
• second-feet

The flow or discharge of rivers, i.e., the volume of water passing a location per unit of time, is commonly expressed in units of cubic feet per second or cubic metres per second.

Cusec is a unit of flow rate, used mostly in the United States in the context of water flow, particularly of rivers and canals.

Conversions: 1 ft³s⁻¹ = = = =

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Cubic foot per minute The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot per minute is ft³/min. The following abbreviations are used:

• cu ft/min
• cfm or CFM
• cfpm or CFPM

Cubic feet per minute is used to measure the amount of air that is being delivered, and is a common metric used for carburetors, pneumatic tools, and air-compressor systems.

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Standard cubic foot A standard cubic foot (abbreviated scf) is a measure of quantity of gas, sometimes defined in terms of standard temperature and pressure as a cubic foot of volume at and of pressure.

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See also

• Board foot
• Conversion of units
• Cord (unit)
• Cube (arithmetic), cube root
• Cubic inch
• Cubic yard
• Orders of magnitude (volume) for a comparison with other volumes
• Orders of magnitude (one cubic millimetre to one cubic metre)
• Square foot
• Therm, a unit of natural gas approximately equal to 100 cubic feet
• Cubic metre per second

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