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acre-foot

 

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Noun acre-foot has 1 sense
  1. acre-foot - the volume of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot; 43,560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic meters
    --1 is a kind of
    volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit

Definitions from the Web

Acre-Foot

Definition: A unit of volume commonly used in the United States to measure large quantities of water, equal to the volume of one acre of surface area with a depth of one foot.

Examples

Noun (Measure):

  1. The reservoir can hold up to 100 acre-feet of water.
  2. During the heavy rain, the river level increased by several acre-feet.

Noun (Unit):

  1. The property owner uses an average of three acre-feet of water annually.
  2. One acre-foot is approximately 325,851 gallons.

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