Cubic yard

Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox unit A cubic yard (symbol yd³) 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. A non-standard abbreviation is cu yd.

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

1 cubic yard
	≡ 27 cubic feet
	≡ Template:Val cubic inches
	≡ Template:Val litres
	≈ Template:Val imperial bushels
	≡ Template:Sfrac US bushels
	≈ Template:Val imperial gallons
	≡ Template:Sfrac US gallons
	≡ Template:Sfrac oil barrels

See also

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