In Canadian French, by federal law, the imperial quart is called pinte. In the United Kingdom goods may be sold by the quart if the equivalent metric measure is also given. The imperial quart, which is used for both liquid and dry capacity, is equal to one quarter of an imperial gallon, or exactly 1.1365225 liters. In the United States, the dry quart is equal to one quarter of a US dry gallon, or exactly 1.101 220 942 715 L. The US liquid quart equals 57.75 cubic inches, which is exactly equal to 0.946 352 946 L. From this definition is derived the metric equivalencies for inches, feet, and miles, area measures, and measures of volume. In the United States, all traditional length and volume measures have been legally standardized for commerce by the international yard and pound agreement of 1959, using the definition of 1 yard being exactly equal to 0.9144 meters. Since gallons of various sizes have historically been in use, the corresponding quarts have also existed with various sizes. In Canadian French in particular, the quart is called pinte, whilst the pint is called chopine. However, although the French word quart has the same root, it frequently means something entirely different. The term comes from the Latin quartus (meaning one-quarter) via the French quart. Historically, the exact size of the quart has varied with the different values of gallons over time and in reference to different commodities. It is divided into two pints or (in the US) four cups. Three kinds of quarts are currently used: the liquid quart and dry quart of the US customary system and the imperial quart of the British imperial system. The quart (symbol: qt) is an English unit of volume equal to a quarter gallon.
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