gallon

Also known as gallons, gal

The 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
Unit.image: GasCan.jpg
Unit.caption: 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)
Unit.quantity: Volume
Unit.symbol: gal
Unit.units_imp1: Non-SI units accepted for use with SI
Unit.units_imp2: US customary units
Unit.inunits_imp2: ≈
Unit.units_imp3: US customary units
Unit.inunits_imp3: ≈
Unit.units_us1: Non-SI units
Unit.units_us2: Imperial units
Unit.inunits_us2: ≈
Unit.units_us3: Imperial units

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Image: GasCan.jpg

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unit symbol: gal
Commons category: Gallon
NCI Thesaurus ID: C48495

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Contents

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.