What does GALLON mean?
Definitions for GALLON
ˈgæl əngal·lon
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Princeton's WordNet
gallon, galnoun
United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
gallon, Imperial gallon, congiusnoun
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters
Wiktionary
gallonnoun
A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
gallonnoun
exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
gallonnoun
231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
gallonnoun
one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon").
gallonnoun
A large quantity (of any liquid).
The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.
Etymology: From galon, galun, ultimately from galleta.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Gallonnoun
A liquid measure of four quarts.
Etymology: gelo, low Latin.
Beat them into powder, and boil them in a gallon of wine, in a vessel close stopped. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.
Wikipedia
Gallon
The gallon is a unit of volume in imperial units and United States customary units. Three different versions are in current use: the imperial gallon (imp gal), defined as 4.54609 litres, which is or was used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and some Caribbean countries; the US gallon (US gal), defined as 3.785411784 L, (231 cubic inches) which is used in the US and some Latin American and Caribbean countries; and the US dry gallon ("usdrygal"), defined as 1⁄8 US bushel (exactly 4.40488377086 L).There are two pints in a quart and four quarts in a gallon. Different sizes of pints account for the different sizes of the imperial and US gallons. The IEEE standard symbol for both US (liquid) and imperial gallon is gal, not to be confused with the gal (symbol: Gal), a CGS unit of acceleration.
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gallon
A gallon is a unit of volume primarily used in the United States but also in some other countries. Traditionally used for measuring volumes of liquid substances like milk or gasoline. It's equivalent to approximately 3.785 liters in the U.S. standard system, but in the British imperial system, it equates to about 4.546 liters.
Webster Dictionary
Gallonnoun
a measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure
Etymology: [OF galon, jalon, LL. galo, galona, fr. galum a liquid measure; cf. F. jale large bowl. Cf. Gill a measure.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Gallon
gal′un, n. the standard measure of capacity=4 quarts. [O. Fr. galun, galon, jalon; app. cog. with Fr. jale, a bowl.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
GALLON
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gallon is ranked #20099 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Gallon surname appeared 1,329 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gallon.
63.8% or 849 total occurrences were Black.
21.6% or 287 total occurrences were White.
9.1% or 122 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
3.8% or 51 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.9% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.
0.5% or 7 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of GALLON in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of GALLON in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of GALLON in a Sentence
There's a lot going on right now but the idea we're going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term. Nor is it with regard to food, we can't take immediate action that I'm aware of yet to figure out how we're bringing down the prices of gasoline back to $ 3 a gallon. And we can't do that immediately with regard to food prices either.
We expect to see higher prices in the next few days ... and they could reach $3 a gallon by next week.
We are boarding up our windows and have already started washing our five gallon jugs so we have extra water on site for the kids, we bought food for an extra week because we don’t know how things are going to be after the hurricane.
Everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more, and it's worrisome, many people remain unsettled about the economy, and we all know why. They see higher prices.
I know that people are really suffering with the inflation and while it is great news that in the last month that gas prices have gone down by about 40 cents per gallon, that's not really the break people are looking for.
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