What is a metric cup?

A metric cup is a volume unit defined as exactly 250 millilitres, often used in cooking and nutrition in metric countries.

What does an acre-foot (US survey) represent?

An acre-foot (US survey) is the volume of water covering one acre of land one US survey foot deep, equal to 43,560 cubic US survey feet.

Why convert from cup (metric) to acre-foot (US survey)?

Converting allows translating small-scale culinary or experimental volumes into large-scale water resource units for planning and management.

How to Convert from Cup (metric) to Acre-foot (US survey)?

Easily convert volumes between the metric cup and the US survey acre-foot units used in cooking and water resource management.

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Acre-foot (US survey)

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Cup (metric) to Acre-foot (US survey) Conversion Table

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What Is This Tool?

This unit converter enables you to translate volume measurements from the metric cup, commonly used in cooking and nutrition, to the acre-foot (US survey), a large-scale water volume measurement used in hydrology and water management.

How to Use This Tool?

Enter the volume value in metric cups you want to convert.
Select cup (metric) as the input unit and acre-foot (US survey) as the output unit.
Click convert to see the equivalent volume in acre-foot (US survey).

Key Features

Converts volume from cup (metric) to acre-foot (US survey) accurately.
Supports volume measurements relevant to culinary and water resource applications.
Browser-based tool with simple interface for quick conversion.

Examples

Converting 10 metric cups equals approximately 2.03 × 10⁻⁶ acre-foot (US survey).
Converting 1000 metric cups gives about 0.0002027 acre-foot (US survey).

Common Use Cases

Measuring ingredient volumes for recipes using metric cups.
Scaling small volume measurements for integration into water resource management.
Planning irrigation water rights and municipal water supply using large-scale units.

Tips & Best Practices

Ensure correct selection of cup (metric) and acre-foot (US survey) for accurate conversions.
Be mindful that resulting values are very small decimals due to unit size differences.
Consider regional variations in acre-foot definitions when applying conversions to precise hydrological data.

Limitations

Conversion results typically produce very small decimal values because of the large difference in unit scales.
Regional definitions of acre-foot (such as between US survey and international feet) may influence exact volume values.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a metric cup?: A metric cup is a volume unit defined as exactly 250 millilitres, often used in cooking and nutrition in metric countries.
What does an acre-foot (US survey) represent?: An acre-foot (US survey) is the volume of water covering one acre of land one US survey foot deep, equal to 43,560 cubic US survey feet.
Why convert from cup (metric) to acre-foot (US survey)?: Converting allows translating small-scale culinary or experimental volumes into large-scale water resource units for planning and management.

Key Terminology

Cup (metric): A non-SI volume unit equal to exactly 250 millilitres, used mainly for culinary and nutritional purposes.
Acre-foot (US survey): A volume unit representing the amount of water covering one acre to a depth of one US survey foot, used in water resource management.

Quick Knowledge Check

What is the volume of one metric cup?

100 millilitres

250 millilitres

500 millilitres

An acre-foot (US survey) equals the volume covering how much area?

One square mile

One acre

One hectare

Why might conversion values between cup (metric) and acre-foot (US survey) be very small?

Because both are large volume units

Because cup is very small and acre-foot is very large

Due to measurement errors

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