Shaped like a die

Usage examples of cubic.

The solution of cubic and of biquadratic equations, at first only in certain particular forms, but later in all forms, was mastered by Tartaglia and Cardan.

But you have to understand there was only about one molecule of poison per cubic yard, and since it takes ten thousand sextillion cyanogen molecules to weigh one poundthese were all known numbers well in advance of the encounterthen a little figuring would have told us that the sum total of poison gas the planet Earth was about to pass through weighed barely half an ounce.

It contained 50,000 cubic feet of gas, and, thanks to its capacity, it could maintain itself a long time in the air, although it should reach a great altitude or might be thrown into a horizontal position.

It consists of one barely habitable inhabited planet, dozens of lifeless star systems, some fluky subspace readings that are probably just instrumentation errors, and about sixty-six thousand cubic parsecs of otherwise extraordinarily uninteresting space.

Planck mass per cubic Planck length, which is a googol grammes per cubic metre.

In fact, the Catalan method, properly so called, requires the construction of kilns and crucibles, in which the ore and the coal, placed in alternate layers, are transformed and reduced, But Cyrus Harding intended to economize these constructions, and wished simply to form, with the ore and the coal, a cubic mass, to the center of which he would direct the wind from his bellows.

Belle leapt clear and tracked-on spitting, reflexively sending her first greeting smashing into the gunhand of the opponent and splattering it, then climbing for the heart and the head--and the Mafioso went down gurgling with three Parabellum hi-shock expanders displacing several cubic inches of vital matter.

The Mozo arrived disassembled in a cubic crate that measured about a meter on a side.

The Anio Novus was the largest of all Roman aqueducts, discharging nearly three hundred thousand cubic meters per day.

Every such block is the size of a cubic sagene and weighs hundreds of poods.

And then we write to the proper authorities-so many cubic sagenes of masonry washed away by the storms.

Thus, then, the bulk of the sphinx which upreared its mystic form upon this outer edge of the southern lands might be calculated by thousands of cubic yards.

His distrust dated from the day the Antwerp cutters fold him five of his stones were cubic zirconia, which was about three weeks before he died.

Five diamonds had mysteriously become cubic zirconia, and yes it was an entirely stupid thing to do, because the substitution was bound to be discovered almost at once, and you knew it would be.

Cubic zirconia, size for size, was one point seven times heavier than diamond.