acre-foot

1. 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

   Broadervolume unit

Questions about acre-foot

What does acre-foot mean?

acre-foot means "the volume of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot; 43,560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic meters".

How many syllables are in acre-foot?

acre-foot has 3 syllables: a-cre--foot. The stress falls on "a".

Is acre-foot a common word?

acre-foot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.