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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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Etymology of 'Cubic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cubic" Quotes from Famous Books

... a door, "we have Barnes' dormitory. An airy room, constructed on the soundest hygienic principles. Each boy, I understand, has quite a considerable number of cubic feet of air all to himself. It is Mr. Outwood's boast that no boy has ever asked for a cubic foot of air in ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

... no idea you had been and bought a cart-load of things for Oxford." His eye brightened; he whipped out a two-foot rule, and began to calculate the cubic contents. "I'll turn to and make the ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... be realized by all senses at once. Compared with that the sunflower, which can only be seen, is a mere pattern, a thing painted on a flat wall. Now, it is this sense of the solidity of things that can only be uttered by the metaphor of eating. To express the cubic content of a turnip, you must be all round it at once. The only way to get all round a turnip at once is to eat the turnip. I think any poetic mind that has loved solidity, the thickness of trees, the squareness of stones, the firmness of clay, ...

— Alarms and Discursions • G. K. Chesterton

... for yourself," said he, "where I live." He laughed. "I'm one of the few people who haven't got a bad word to say of the Standard Oil Co. They give me more cubic feet of private space, bigger cabin space, and better food than any shipowner across the water. They give me any mortal thing for my engines except time to overhaul them. The newspapers tell me they're ...

— Aliens • William McFee

... have talked that business over, write to me about it. [What is the business? Whither is the dusky Swan of Padua gone?] In all these three hundred miles I have found no human creature comparable to the Swan of Padua. I would willingly give ten cubic leagues of ground for a genius similar to yours. But I perceive I was about entreating you to return fast, and join me again,—while you are not yet arrived where your errand was. Make haste to arrive, then; ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

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