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ACRE-FOOT (acre-feet)
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Irregular inflected form: acre-feet
Dictionary entry overview: What does acre-foot mean?
• ACRE-FOOT (noun)
The noun ACRE-FOOT has 1 sense:
1. the volume of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot; 43,560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic meters
Familiarity information: ACRE-FOOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The volume of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot; 43,560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic meters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("acre-foot" is a kind of...):
capacity measure; capacity unit; cubage unit; cubature unit; cubic content unit; cubic measure; displacement unit; volume unit (a unit of measurement of volume or capacity)
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