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adjective

Cubical, Cubic adj.

Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

(Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.

Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube.

Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions.

Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube.

Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

noun

Cubic n. (Geom.) A curve of the third degree.

Circular cubic. See under Circular.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cubic" Quotes from Famous Books

... who have to their hand concentrated and preserved foods, a surer knowledge of the causes of tropical diseases, and outfits of non-perishable medicines sufficient for many years within the space of a few cubic inches. Commissariat and health are the keys to all exploration in uncivilised regions. Wallace accomplished his work on the shortest of commons and lay weeks at a time sick through inability to ...

— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant

... is typical, we have rock three feet thick, ten feet wide, and twenty feet long piled up in front of us. That makes six hundred cubic feet of rock." ...

— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... the direction of the poles of the Milky Way an extension of 50 sir. We have later to return to the fuller discussion of this extension. For the present it is sufficient to assume these values. The whole system of the Galaxy then has a volume of 200 million cubic siriometers. Suppose further that the total number of stars in the Galaxy would amount to 1000 millions, a value to which we shall also return in a following chapter. Then we conclude that the average number of stars per ...

— Lectures on Stellar Statistics • Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier

... mountain slopes over which it flowed. It lasted for thirteen months, pouring out a torrent of lava which covered nearly 300 square miles of land, and whose volume was estimated at thirty-eight thousand millions of cubic feet! In 1859 lava fountains 400 feet in height, and with a nearly equal diameter, played on the summit of Mauna Loa. This eruption ran fifty miles to the sea in eight days, but the flow lasted much longer, and added a new promontory ...

— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird

... time numbered just thirty-two—fifteen men, twelve women, two boys, and three girls. This was rather a small assemblage for a place which will hold between 500 and 600 persons; but it might be gratifying to the shades of its chemistry-loving, cubic-feet-of-air-admiring designers, for they would at any rate have the lively satisfaction of knowing that none of the famous 32 would suffer through want of breathing space. The members of the congregation came ...

— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus

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