The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada . It equals the volume of a board that is one foot (30.5 cm) in length, one foot (30.5 cm) in width, and one inch (2.54 cm) in thickness, or exactly 2.359 737 216 liters . Board foot can be abbreviated as FBM (for "foot, board measure"), BDFT, or BF. A thousand board feet can be abbreviated as MFBM , MBFT, or MBF. Similarly, a million board feet can be abbreviated as MMFBM , MMBFT, or MMBF.
5-617: FBM may refer to: Board foot , a unit of measure for lumber Fleet Ballistic Missile , of the United States Navy Fractional Brownian motion (fBm) Frankfurt Book Fair ( Frankfurter Buchmesse ), a book trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany Lubumbashi International Airport (IATA: FBMI), Democratic Republic of the Congo Topics referred to by
10-464: Is softwood "two by four" lumber sold by large lumber retailers, nominally 2 by 4 inches (50 mm × 100 mm). The 2 × 4 is actually only 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (38 mm × 89 mm), but the dimensions for the lumber when purchased wholesale could still be represented as full 2 × 4 lumber, although the "standard" can vary between vendors. This means that nominal lumber includes air space around
15-486: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Board foot Until the 1970s, in Australia and New Zealand, the terms super foot and superficial foot were used with the same meaning. One board foot equals: The board foot is used to measure rough lumber (before drying and planing with no adjustments) or planed/surfaced lumber. An example of planed lumber
20-406: The physical board when calculating board feet in some situations, while the true measurement of "board feet" should be limited to the actual dimensions of the board. For planed lumber, board feet refer to the nominal thickness and width of lumber, calculated in principle on its size before drying and planing. Here, the actual length is used. Note: see dimensional lumber for a full discussion of
25-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title FBM . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FBM&oldid=1022093819 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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