Imperial units are more of a mess, customary, current and 'legal' definitions conflicting with each other. In the imperial system the cubic feet and more rarely the cubic yard are used for volumes of objects while liquid gallons, liquid quarts, pints, and fluid ounces are used for liquids and gases. are used to measure the volume of objects while liters and millileters are used for measuring the volume of gases and liquids. Metric volume units (SI units) UnitĬubic meters, centimeters, etc. Below is a reference table for these units relative to the cubic meter. Our volume converter supports all of these metrics. Other units include the cubic kilometer, cubic decimeter, cubic centimeter, cubic millimeter, liter (UK: litre), milliliter, and others. Since every unit of length has a corresponding unit of volume (the corresponding volume of a cube with the given side length) the standard unit of volume in SI is the cubic meter (cubic metre in British English). Volume units part of the International System of Measurements (SI) are based on the base unit: the meter, hence the name 'metric system'. Assuming you know or have measured the volume in one unit of volume, you might need to convert it to another, which is where our converter can be of assistance.

There are different ways to calculate the volumes of differently-shaped objects - you can check our volume calculators for formulas, references and easy calculation. Understanding this is helpful in interepreting the output of our volume converter. One can think of volume as the amount of water displaced by an objected fully submerged in a water tank. Volume is defined as the quantity which expresses the space occupied by a three-dimensional object, gas, or liquid.

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