gallon
Sign in to saveThe gallon is a unit of volume in British imperial units and United States customary units.
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A gallon is a unit of measurement used to describe how much liquid or gas something can hold, and it's commonly used in the United States and Britain. It matters because it's the standard way people in these countries measure things like gasoline, milk, and water in everyday life.
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Key facts
- Unit.name
- gallon
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- GasCan.jpg
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- A 1-US-gallon gasoline can showing "U.S. Gallon" marking (for American use), imperial gallons (for some Caribbean countries' and territories' use), and litres (for Canadian use)
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- Volume
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- gal
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- Non-SI units accepted for use with SI
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- US customary units
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- ≈
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- US customary units
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- ≈
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- Non-SI units
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- Imperial units
Article
14 sectionsContents
- Definitions
- Imperial gallon
- US gallon
- Worldwide usage
- Imperial gallon
- US gallon
- Both imperial and US gallon
- Legacy
- Relationship to other units
- US dry gallon
- History
- Sizes of gallons
- References
- External links
The gallon is a unit of volume in British imperial units and United States customary units.
The imperial gallon (imp gal) is defined as , and is or was used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Malaysia and some Caribbean countries, while the US gallon (US gal) is defined as , and is used in the United States and some Latin American and Caribbean countries.