Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

forty-foot equivalent unit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables
forty--foot e-quiv-a-len-t u-nit
IPA
44
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
8
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unit of cargo capacity, based on the volume of a 40-foot-long (12.19 m) intermodal container.

Inflected Forms

forty-foot equivalent units (plural)

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What does forty-foot equivalent unit mean?
A unit of cargo capacity, based on the volume of a 40-foot-long (12.19 m) intermodal container.

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