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PRONUNCIATION OF ACRE-FOOT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACRE-FOOT

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adverb
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conjunction
determiner
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Acre-Foot is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACRE-FOOT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acre-foot

An acre-foot is a unit of volume commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water and river flows.

Definition of acre-foot in the English dictionary

The definition of acre-foot in the dictionary is the volume of water that would cover an area of 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot: equivalent to 43 560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic metres.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACRE-FOOT

acrasia
acrasin
acratic
acre
acre-feet
acre-inch
acreage
acred
acres
acrid
acridin
acridine
acridity
acridly
acridness
acriflavin
acriflavine
acriflavine hydrochloride
Acrilan
acrimonies

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACRE-FOOT

barefoot
bear´s-foot
bigfoot
bird-foot
bird´s-foot
bumble-foot
cat´s-foot
crow´s-foot
elephant´s-foot
first-foot
foot
hare´s-foot
on the back foot
on the front foot
on the right foot
on the wrong foot
polt-foot
side-foot
single-foot
wrong-foot

Synonyms and antonyms of acre-foot in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «acre-foot» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACRE-FOOT

Find out the translation of acre-foot to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of acre-foot from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «acre-foot» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

英亩 - 英尺
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acre-pie
570 millions of speakers

English

acre-foot
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एकड़ फुट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فدان القدم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

акр-футов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acre - pé
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

একর ফুট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

acre-pied
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kaki-kaki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

acre-foot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

エーカーフィート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에이커 피트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Acre-foot
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

acre- chân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏக்கர் அடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकर-पाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akre-fit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acro - piede
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hektarowej stóp
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

акр - футів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acru - picior
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στρέμμα πόδι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

akker -voet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tunnland fot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

acre -fots
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acre-foot

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACRE-FOOT»

The term «acre-foot» is regularly used and occupies the 99.517 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACRE-FOOT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «acre-foot» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «acre-foot» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about acre-foot

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACRE-FOOT»

Discover the use of acre-foot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acre-foot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tellable Cracker Tales
Acre-Foot stood nearby, but said nothing. When the agent told Big-Ed to sign on the bottom line, Acre-Foot spoke up: "Hold on there just a minute. If ol' Ed can make that trip with a load of mail once a week, I'll go so far as to wager I can make it ...
Annette J. Bruce, 1996
2
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
Any additional water delivered shall be charged for at the rate of $2 per acre-foot or fraction thereof for the first additional acre-foot, $2 per acre-foot or fraction thereof for the second additional acre-foot and $2 per acre-foot or fraction thereof for ...
3
Cercosporella foot rot of winter cereals
In making such calculations it is usual to use an arbitrarily selected mean value of 4,000,000 pounds per acre-foot, or 2,000,000 pounds for the plow depth taken as 6% inches. It would be better if the actual weight per acre-foot for each soil ...
Roderick Sprague, Hurley Fellows, 1934
4
Cost of pumping for drainage in the upper Mississippi Valley
The average cost of pumping for all the electric plants amounted to 77 cents per acre-foot, at 14 per cent plant factor, 9.45 feet lift, and 41.8 per cent over-all efficiency. This cost was highest at the Banner Special and Hartwell plants, as was the ...
John Guice Sutton, 1932
5
Salt balance and leaching requirement in irrigated lands
Assume that soil weighs 2,000 tons per acre-foot (4,000,000 pounds). Determine the depth, in feet, in which the salt is distributed in the profile and multiply by 2,000 to get the weight. Divide the cumulative SBa value by this weight and multiply ...
L. V. Wilcox, W. F. Resch, 1963
6
CTIA: Consolidated Treaties and International Agreements ...
Unit payment due OWD for delivery charges and other expenses ($/acre-foot) $96.48 5. Total payment to OWD (Line 3 times Line 4) ($) Payment to the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) 6. Water delivered by SDCWA for Mexico; ...
Oceana Editorial Board, 2010
7
Markets for Federal Water: Subsidies, Property Rights, and ...
"Estimated minimum selling price from tables 7-1 and 7-2 is $55 per acre-foot per year or $1,360 per acre. acre basis and a per-acre-foot basis. For example, if water sold for $125 per acre-foot at the Delta, a farmer would receive about $40 per ...
Richard W. Wahl, 1989
8
Guidelines for Cloud Seeding to Augment Precipitation
approximately $1/acre-foot via the current operational winter orographic cloud seeding program methodology used throughout Utah. 2.4.3.3 California. Because precipitation in California varies extremely with latitude, and surface water is ...
Conrad G. Keyes, 2006
9
Legislative history: Saline water conversion act
At the beginning of the program, the cost of converting sea water to fresh water by the best processes in use was estimated at about S400 to $500 an acre-foot. The initial cost goals for the program were set at $125 per acre-foot for municipal ...
United States. Office of Saline Water
10
Turfgrass and Landscape Irrigation Water Quality: Assessment ...
table 3.9 conversion factors for calculating pounds of nutrient per acre-foot of irrigation water from nutrient content in the water Conversion factors that can be used are as follows: 1 mg/L = 1 ppm 1 mg/L NO3- = 0.226 mg/LN 1 mg/L N = 4.42  ...
Robert N. Carrow, Ronny R. Duncan, Michael T. Huck, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACRE-FOOT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term acre-foot is used in the context of the following news items.
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Silicon Valley struggles to pitch water-saving tech to farmers
An acre-foot is about what two average households use in a year. Growers readily recognize the opportunity to save both water and the energy ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
Orange County's plans to turn rainwater into a resource
... implementing stormwater capture systems. *An acre-foot is enough water to supply a family of four for a year. Source: Orange County Public ... «OCRegister, Jul 15»
3
Persuading Californians to save water
An acre-foot is enough water to cover an acre to a depth of 1 foot. One resident who bought into the plan early on is Gabrielle Botoseanu, ... «Bend Bulletin, Jul 15»
4
How Baja California is battling the drought
An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons, enough for two average single-family households for a year. Should cutbacks come, farmers like ... «U-T San Diego, Jul 15»
5
Data centers are far from being California's worst water-guzzlers …
... Institute estimated that in 2001 the high-tech sector in California produced $950,000 of gross state product for every acre-foot of water used. «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
6
OID special treatment for Trinitas? Follow the money
All customers pay a base rate of $27 per acre, plus $3 per acre-foot for the first 3 acre-feet of water received; $6 for the next 2 acre-feet; and so ... «Modesto Bee, Jul 15»
7
Dale Hekhuis and Doug Wilhelm: Water users looking at high-risk …
During the planning of its 50,000-acre-foot desalination project currently under construction, the San Diego County Water Authority concluded ... «Monterey County Herald, Jul 15»
8
Top of the World water rights transfer spurs worries, plans
... and the 1,752 acre-feet of water rights that will likely be transferred downriver. For perspective, 1 acre-foot equals almost 326,000 gallons. «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
9
Sending cheap water to China in midst of drought
But it will fetch a sky-high price of up to $2,367 per acre-foot. Residents and economic engines of growth like San Diego's biotech community ... «U-T San Diego, Jul 15»
10
Late snow, 'miracle May' best NM water news in years
(An acre-foot is the amount of water necessary to cover an acre at a depth of a foot). That happened for several weeks this spring. “We stored ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jul 15»

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