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Definition: Acre-foot |
Acre-footNoun1. The volume of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot; 43,560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic meters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | The volume of water that would cover one acre of land (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot, equivalent to 325,851 gallons of water. An acre-foot is the basic measure of agricultural water use. On average, irrigators apply almost 2 feet of water on each acre through the crop growing season; the amount ranges from 4 feet in the Southwest to a half foot in some eastern states. Water withdrawn for irrigation from ground and surface sources totals about 150 maf (million acre-feet) of water annually. (references) |
Hydrologic | The volume of water required to cover 1 acre of land (43,560 square feet) to a depth of 1 foot. Equal to 325,851 gallons or 1,233 cubic meters. (acre-ft). (references) |
| The amount of water required to cover one acre to a depth of one foot. An acre-foot equals 326,851 gallons, or 43,560 cubic feet. (references) | |
Mining | The quantity of water that would cover 1 acre, 1 ft deep (1 ha, 13.6 cmdeep). One acre-foot contains 43,560 ft3 (1,233 m3 ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Acre-foot |
| English words defined with "acre-foot": acre inch. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "acre-foot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 英亩宽英寸深. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | acre-footay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Acre-foot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carefoot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: footrace. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: coater, cooter, factor, foetor, footer. | |
-3 letters: actor, afoot, afore, after, caret, carte, cater, cooer, craft, crate, croft, facer, facet, farce, fetor, force, forte, oater, ocrea, ofter, orate, react, recta, recto, taroc, trace. | |
-4 letters: acre, aero, arco, cafe, care, cart, cate, cero, coat, coft, coof, coot, core, corf, cote, face, fact, fare, faro, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, foot, fora, fore, fort, frae, frat, fret, froe, orca, race, raft, rate, rato, reft, roof, root, rota, rote, roto, tace, taco, tare, taro, tear, toea, tora, torc, tore, toro, tref. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, aft, arc, are, arf, art, ate, car, cat, coo, cor, cot, ear, eat, eft, era, eta, far, fat, fer, fet, foe, for, fro, oaf, oar, oat, oca, oft, oot, ora, orc, ore, ort, rat, rec, ref, ret, roc, roe, rot, tae, tao, tar, tea, toe, too, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: footraces. | |
+2 letters: cofavorite, oceanfront. | |
+3 letters: cofavorites, comfortable, oceanfronts, vociferator. | |
+4 letters: olfactometer, vociferation, vociferators. | |
+5 letters: colorfastness, confectionary, confederation, olfactometers, uncomfortable, vociferations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 72 65 2D 66 6F 6F 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110010 01100101 00101101 01100110 01101111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c r e - f o o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0072 0065 002D 0066 006F 006F 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356984711572818186 |
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