Cubic yard explained

cubic yard
Standard:	Imperial and US customary
Quantity:	Volume
Symbol:	yd^3
Symbol2:	cu yd
Units1:	SI units
Units2:	Imperial and US customary
Inunits2:	27 ft^3

A cubic yard (symbol yd³)^[1] is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in Canada and the United States. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard (3 feet, 36 inches, 0.9144 meters) in length.

Symbols and abbreviations

The IEEE symbol for the cubic yard is yd³. The following abbreviations 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

Cubic yard per second

One cubic yard per second (1 yd³/s) is a unit of volume flow rate. It corresponds to one cubic yard passing through a specified area every second.

Cubic yard per minute

One cubic yard per minute (1 yd³/min) is a unit of volume flow rate. It corresponds to one cubic yard passing through a specified area every minute.

• 1 yd³/s = 60 yd³/min

Conversions

valign=top rowspan=11	1 cubic yard
= 27 cubic feet
= cubic inches
= cubic metres
≈ cubic miles
≈ imperial bushels
≈ US bushels
≈ imperial gallons
≈ 201.974 US liquid gallons
≈ crude barrels
≈ 764.5549 litres

See also

• cubic foot
• cubic inch
• Square yard
• Orders of magnitude (volume)
• Conversion of units
• Cube (arithmetic), cube root
  • Cubic equation, cubic function

Notes and References

1. IEEE Std 260.1-2004