Wiktionary
n. A unit of volumetric measurement equivalent to a cube one yard in each dimension.
WordNet
n. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [syn: yard]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "cubic yard".
It poured digestive juices into the portion of the ocean trapped beneath its bulk, then sucked in water by the cubic yard to extract the nutriment it contained, and still later expelled water, debris, and its own wastes.
Another nice accident that happened was that a cubic yard of cold water weighed slightly under an American ton, and a thousandth of that, or one cubic twelyard, weighed just over an American pound.
Two hundred and fifty million cubic yards of rock at two tons per cubic yard was five hundred million tons.
A large, one-thousand-megawatt power plant produces about one cubic yard of it—.
In this highly complex computer brain there were more circuit elements packed into the space of a cubic centimetre than we could have stored effectively into a cubic yard and still get anywhere near the same performance.
Give me a vat, one cubic yard, of the most highly concentrated nitric acid we have, and place some opaque covering over it.
When he shrugged his massive shoulders, I could almost feel the cubic yard of displaced air wafting across the table.
She frowned against the light, scowling at our bubbling animal flesh, our cubic yard of nitrous.
Only a massive metal cube of about one cubic yard was over to the right.