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acre-inch

acre-inch noun: a unit of volume that is one twelfth of an acre-foot; the volume of water that would cover an area of one acre to a depth of one inch, equal to 102.8 cu. m or 3,630 cu. ft.

Noun

acre-inch (plural acre-inches)

  1. A unit of volume that is one twelfth of an acre-foot; the volume of water that would cover an area of one acre to a depth of one inch, equal to 102.8 cu. m or 3,630 cu. ft.

Forms of acre-inch

pluralacre-inches

Questions about acre-inch

What does acre-inch mean?
Acre-inch means a unit of volume that is one twelfth of an acre-foot; the volume of water that would cover an area of one acre to a depth of one inch, equal to 102.8 cu. m or 3,630 cu. ft.
What part of speech is acre-inch?
Acre-inch is a noun.
What is the plural of acre-inch?
The plural of acre-inch is acre-inches.

Words near acre-inch in the dictionary

  1. acre-breadths
  2. acre-dale
  3. acre-dales
  4. acre-feet
  5. acre-foot
  6. acre-inch
  7. acre-inches
  8. acre-land
  9. acre-lands
  10. acre-staff
  11. acre-staffs

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