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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 =0.764554857984 cubic metres ≈764.554858 litres ≈764 554 858 cubic millimetres ≈764 554.858 cubic centimetres ≈0.000000000765 cubic kilometres

0.67753457854584374 bacons 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