cu ft
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- noun
- Specialized
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pies cúbicos
- Each box can hold up to 5 cu ft of material, making it suitable for shipping.
Examples
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Reserves are estimated by BG to be of the order of 1.4 trillion cu ft, valued at approximately $4 billion.
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Given a high enough injection pressure, one can put 1,000 cu ft of gas at STP into a pore space of 1 cu ft.
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Given a high enough injection pressure, one can put 1,000 cu ft of gas at STP into a pore space of 1 cu ft.
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It's a very simple effort to inject 1,000 cu ft of any gas into a small fraction of that volume if you're injecting under sufficient pressure.
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Cement/concrete weighs from 68 to 200 lbs/cu ft, with 68 being lightweight and 200 being dense.
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The refrigerator has a storage space of 20 cu ft, providing ample room for groceries.
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He measured the living room and calculated its volume to be about 300 cu ft.
Synonyms
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A measure of space equal to a cube one foot on each side
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
cu + ft
This is a straightforward abbreviation of the compositional unit 'cubic foot' (cubic + foot), so the meaning (a unit of volume) is directly derivable from the constituents. While 'cu' and 'ft' are orthographic abbreviations that some learners might not immediately recognize, the semantic composition is transparent and follows regular unit-formation conventions.
Etymology
The abbreviation cu ft is short for cubic foot, a cube one foot long on each side. So cu ft is used to say how much 'space' something holds.