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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'

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"Cubic" Quotes from Famous Books

... this revelation, Kennedy did not seem to consider it as important as one that he was now hastening to show us. He took a few cubic centimetres of some culture which he had been preparing, placed it in a tube, and poured in eight or ten drops of ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... and especially the roots of the latter, yield veneers of unusual beauty, dark wavings and blotches, almost black, being gracefully disposed over a delicate fawn-coloured ground. Its density is so great (nearly 60 lbs. to a cubic foot) that it takes an exquisite polish, and is in every way adapted for the manufacture of furniture, in the ornamenting of which the native carpenters excel. The chiefs and headmen, with a full appreciation of its beauty, take particular ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... is a wooden box, about one cubic foot in size, with a round hole perforated in one of the sides, and the opposite side covered with a piece of linen in place of the wooden side. The bottom of the box should then be covered with some strong solution of ammonia, and some hydrochloric acid poured ...

— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

... she said that the Advancement of Science was one thing and having a lot of tadpoles in a flat was another; he said that in Germany it was an ascertained fact that a man with an idea like his would at once have twenty thousand properly-fitted cubic feet of laboratory placed at his disposal, and she said she was glad and always had been glad that she was not a German; he said that it would make him famous for ever, and she said it was much more likely to make ...

— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells

... its arms after a slap on the back, just like normal new-born children, and uttered very harsh, feeble tones when its back was rubbed. When I put my finger in its mouth vigorous sucking movements began, which induced me to offer the bottle—this had not yet been done. Some cubic centimetres of milk were vigorously swallowed, and soon afterward the breast of a nurse was taken. While this was going on I could feel quite distinctly with my finger, under the chin, the movements of swallowing. ...

— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

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