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A 'cubic foot' is an Imperial / U.S. customary (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 foot (0.3048 m) in length.

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Symbols

Conversions

Standard cubic foot

See also

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

★ cubic feet, cubic foot, cubic ft

★ cu ft, cu feet, cu foot

★ ft³, feet³, foot³

★ feet^3, foot^3, ft^3

★ feet/-3, foot/-3, ft/-3

★ CCF for 100 cubic feet (C denotes ''centum'', hundred)

★ MCF for 1,000 cubic feet (M denotes ''mil'', thousand)

★ TCF for 1 trillion cubic feet. Used in the oil and gas industry. The term trillion in this case refers to 10¹², the short scale definition employed by most English speaking countries.

Conversions

1 cubic foot is equivalent to:

★ 1728 cubic inches

★ 28.316846592 litres or 0.028316846592 cubic metres

★ ≈ 7.48051948 U.S. liquid gallons (exactly: 576/77 or 7480512/999999)

★ ≈ 957.50649350 U.S. fluid ounces (exactly: 73728/77)

★ ≈ 6.22883546 Imperial gallons or ≈ 996.61367 Imperial fluid ounces

★ ≈ 0.037037 cubic yards (exactly: 1/27)

★ ≈ 0.803563913 U.S. bushels

★ ≈ 0.1781076 oil barrels

Standard cubic foot

A standard cubic foot (abbreviated 'scf') is a measure of quantity of gas, sometimes but not always defined as a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch (PSI) of pressure. See standard temperature and pressure.

See also

★ 1 E-2 m³ for a comparison with other volumes

★ Orders of magnitude (volume)

★ Conversion of units

★ Cube (arithmetic), cube root

★ Square foot