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cubic

1. having the shape of a cube

a. having three dimensions

b. denoting or relating to a linear measure that is raised to the third power

3. Maths of, relating to, or containing a variable to the third power or a term in which the sum of the exponents of the variables is three

4. Crystallog relating to or belonging to the crystal system characterized by three equal perpendicular axes. The unit cell of cubic crystals is a cube with a lattice point at each corner (simple cubic) and one in the cube's centre (body-centred cubic), or a lattice point at each corner and one at the centre of each face (face-centred cubic).

5. Maths

a. a cubic equation, such as x³ + x + 2 = 0

b. a cubic term or expression

cubic [′kyü·bik]

(mechanics)

Denoting a unit of volume, so that ifxis a unit of length, a cubicxis the volume of a cube whose sides have length 1x; for example, a cubic meter, or a meter cubed, is the volume of a cube whose sides have a length of 1 meter. Abbreviated cu.

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No references found	A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of the air amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about four thousand pounds. Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context 20,000 cubic feet; and since the contents of your cannon do not exceed 54,000 cubic feet, it would be half full; and the bore will not be more than long enough for the gas to communicate to the projectile sufficient impulse. From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context	Cuba Liberation Day cubage Cuban Anniversary of the Beginning of the Wars of Independence Cuban Crisis 1962 Cuban Institute of Radio Broadcasting Cuban missile crisis Cuban Revolution cubane Cubango Cubanite Cubans Cubatao Cubataõ cubature Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson Cubbins, Bartholomew cubby Cube cube ore cube root cube spar cube strength cube-surface coil cubeb cubeb oil cubic cubic boron nitride cubic cleavage cubic crystal cubic curve cubic determinant Cubic Equation cubic foot per minute cubic foot per second cubic measure cubic packing cubic plane cubic polynomial cubic quantic cubic spline cubic surd cubic system cubic yard cubic yard bank measurement cubic yard compacted measurement cubical aggregate cubical antenna cubical dilation cubical expansion cubical parabola cubicle	Cubebol CubeBomb Cubebs Cubebs cubed cubed cubed Cubed steak cubelike Cubeoctahedron cuber cuber cuber cuber Cuber’s Wrist cubes cubes cubes cubes cubes Cubewano Cubewanos CUBG Cubhood Cubhood Cubhood cubhoods cubhoods cubhoods Cubi cubic Cubic Board Meter Cubic Boron Nitride Cubic Boron Nitride Cubic Boron Nitride cubic capacities cubic capacity cubic capacity cubic centimeter cubic centimeter cubic centimeter cubic centimeter Cubic centimeters Cubic centimeters Cubic Centimeters per Kilogram per Day cubic centimetre cubic centimetre Cubic centimetres Cubic Chain of Rotators Cubic cleavage Cubic cleavage Cubic Close Packed cubic content unit Cubic Convolution Cubic crystal Cubic crystal system Cubic curve Cubic decametre Cubic decametre cubic decimeter cubic decimetre

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A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of the air amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about four thousand pounds.

Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context

20,000 cubic feet; and since the contents of your cannon do not exceed 54,000 cubic feet, it would be half full; and the bore will not be more than long enough for the gas to communicate to the projectile sufficient impulse.

From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context

The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

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