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cubic 1. having the shape of a cube 2. 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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| 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. 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. 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. |
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