In the Middle Ages, many units for measuring volume were made, such as the sester, amber, coomb, and seam. The sheer quantity of such units motivated British kings to standardize them, culminated in the Assize of Bread and Ale statute in 1258 by Henry III of England. The statute standardized weight, length and volume as well as introduced the peny, ounce, pound, gallon and bushel. [4] :73–74 In 1618, the London Pharmacopoeia (medicine compound catalog) adopted the Roman gallon [8] or congius [9] as a basic unit of volume and gave a conversion table to the apothecaries' units of weight. [8] Around this time, volume measurements are becoming more precise and the uncertainty is narrowed to between 1–5mL (0.03–0.2USfloz; 0.04–0.2impfloz). [4] :8 Commonly used prefixes for cubed length units are the cubic millimetre (mm 3), cubic centimetre (cm 3), cubic decimetre (dm 3), cubic metre (m 3) and the cubic kilometre (km 3). The conversion between the prefix units are as follows: 1000mm 3 = 1cm 3, 1000cm 3 = 1dm 3, and 1000dm 3 = 1m 3. [1] The metric system also includes the litre (L) as a unit of volume, where 1 L = 1dm 3 = 1000cm 3 = 0.001m 3. [17] :145 For the litre unit, the commonly used prefixes are the millilitre (mL), centilitre (cL), and the litre (L), with 1000mL = 1L, 10mL = 1cL, 10cL = 1dL, and 10dL = 1L. [1] Benson, Tom (7 May 2021). "Gas Density". Glenn Research Center. Archived from the original on 2022-08-09 . Retrieved 2022-08-13.

Use of Micropipettes" (PDF). Buffalo State College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2016 . Retrieved 19 June 2016. a b Le Système international d’unités[ The International System of Units] (PDF) (in French and English) (9thed.), International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 2019, ISBN 978-92-822-2272-0 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Treese, Steven A. (2018). History and Measurement of the Base and Derived Units. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 978-3-319-77577-7. LCCN 2018940415. OCLC 1036766223.To ease calculations, a unit of volume is equal to the volume occupied by a unit cube (with a side length of one). Because the volume occupies three dimensions, if the metre (m) is chosen as a unit of length, the corresponding unit of volume is the cubic metre (m 3). The cubic metre is also a SI derived unit. [15] Therefore, volume has a unit dimension of L 3. [16]

Lemons, Don S. (16 March 2017). A Student's Guide to Dimensional Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press. p.38. ISBN 978-1-107-16115-3. OCLC 959922612.Marion, Jerry B. (1982). Physics For Science and Engineering. CBS College Publishing. p.3. ISBN 978-4-8337-0098-6. Litres are most commonly used for items (such as fluids and solids that can be poured) which are measured by the capacity or size of their container, whereas cubic metres (and derived units) are most commonly used for items measured either by their dimensions or their displacements. [ citation needed] IEC 60050 — Details for IEV number 102-04-39: "three-dimensional domain" ". International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (in Japanese) . Retrieved 2023-09-19. Graf, E. H. (2004). "Just what did Archimedes say about buoyancy?". The Physics Teacher. 42 (5): 296–299. Bibcode: 2004PhTea..42..296G. doi: 10.1119/1.1737965. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14 . Retrieved 2022-08-07. a b c "SI Units - Volume". National Institute of Standards and Technology. April 13, 2022. Archived from the original on August 7, 2022 . Retrieved August 7, 2022.