capacity unit

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   a unit of measurement of volume or capacity

   Synonymsvolume unitcapacity measurecubage unitcubic measurecubic content unitdisplacement unitcubature unit

   Broaderunit of measurement

   Narrowercubic inchcubic footcordliquid unitdry unitmetric capacity unitcranfield capacityhomerhin

   Part ofvolume

Questions about capacity unit

What does capacity unit mean?

capacity unit means "a unit of measurement of volume or capacity".

What is another word for capacity unit?

Close synonyms include volume unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capacity unit a common word?

capacity unit 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.