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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cubic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
centimetre
▪ If they were packed tightly there could be 5 thousand million of them in a cubic centimetre of inflammation.
▪ How many hydra per cubic centimetre teem in that pond?
foot
▪ For the cost of a few cubic feet of topsoil, the garden can be terraced excitingly on to, say, three levels.
▪ Half a million cubic feet of the building are used to store the paper on which the intercepts eventually appear.
▪ All the pallets were of a standard size which Bob guessed to be about four feet square, about sixty-four cubic feet.
▪ It offers 118 cubic feet of cargo space, or five times the trunk space of a Buick Regal.
▪ This hasn't restricted the boot space which is 18 cubic feet - square and uncluttered thanks to the good suspension design.
▪ In San Marcos, river conditions can be adversely affected when spring flow drops below 100 cubic feet per second.
▪ Clever design also ensures that the Safrane offers 10% more basic luggage space than the Renault 25 at 17 cubic feet.
▪ It delivers about 700 million cubic feet of gas per day.
inch
▪ These have a radius of about ten miles and densities of millions of tons per cubic inch.
kilometres
▪ Of this, 4 million cubic kilometres is a reasonable estimate for the freshwater we could extract.
▪ About four cubic kilometres of ash were ejected, falling out over an area of 57,000 square kilometres.
▪ If Shaw is right one such flood must have contained around 84,000 cubic kilometres of water.
▪ How can this happen on a planet that has an estimated 1400 million cubic kilometres of water?
▪ By far the largest proportion is in the oceans, which hold roughly 1370 million cubic kilometres of salt water.
meter
▪ If conservation measures were adopted, the report said, the forests could cope with 9.2 million cubic meters a year.
▪ They put an upper limit of 4.6 million cubic meters on annual timber extraction.
metre
▪ You then need to multiply this by your company's charge for each cubic metre of water.
▪ Charges differ throughout the country but 40p per cubic metre is a rough guide.
▪ Levels of sulphur dioxide in the air reached 2,400 microgrammes per cubic metre over the weekend.
▪ If all goes to plan, the sail will collapse into a box less than a cubic metre in volume.
▪ The new limit is one billionth of a gram per cubic metre.
▪ The consultants reckon that pumping water from depths of 20 metres would cost less than 50 cents per cubic metre with solar power.
▪ We each drink about one cubic metre of water a year and use between 50 and 100 for domestic purposes.
metres
▪ Over one and a half million cubic metres of ash were swept out of what remained of the town.
▪ Inside was a habitable volume of just under six cubic metres.
▪ In the beginning, it lost about 15 billion cubic metres of water by seepage each year.
▪ The catamaran can work to a depth of 25 metres, excavating 250-300 cubic metres an hour.
▪ More than 110,000 tonnes of concrete will be used - 45,000 cubic metres - and 8,500 tonnes of reinforced steel.
▪ Releases were increased over the weekend to 7500 cubic metres a second, engulfing communities on the floodplain below.
▪ Timber production in Sarawak reached 18 million cubic metres in 1990.
▪ Omsk alone required the excavation of 130,000 cubic metres of earth.
yard
▪ It was at this inquest that Gordon Thomas claimed that 60,000 cubic yards of earth had been moved during the excavation.
▪ For every fifty cubic yards of concrete, Carlton took four samples and pressed them into plastic cylinders.
▪ Every last cubic yard on Sir George's side of the road.
▪ Wieczorek estimates the total volume of rock as 80, 000 cubic yards.
▪ The government was paying farmers fifteen cents a cubic yard to move dirt.
▪ A landslide of 600, 000 cubic yards of granite occurred in the park in 1987 but caused no air blast.
▪ In all, there is 35, 000 cubic yards of garbage.
▪ Still, Waste Management estimated that 35, 000 cubic yards of refuse would have to be excavated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A country that imports wheat rather than growing it locally therefore saves 1,000 cubic metres of water for every tonne it imports.
▪ All the pallets were of a standard size which Bob guessed to be about four feet square, about sixty-four cubic feet.
▪ Dux wanted cubic capacity, lots of it.
▪ It offers 118 cubic feet of cargo space, or five times the trunk space of a Buick Regal.
▪ The government was paying farmers fifteen cents a cubic yard to move dirt.
▪ The men were injured in March last year when seven cubic metres of concentrated nitric acid escaped from a valve.
▪ The total volume of the brown shales is 12, 600 cubic miles as determined from a study of well cuttings.
▪ Up to 1.2 million cubic metres are expected to be cut this year - three or four times as much as in 1991.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cubic

Cubic \Cu"bic\, n. (Geom.) A curve of the third degree.

Circular cubic. See under Circular.

Cubic

Cubic \Cu"bic\ (k?"b?k), Cubical \Cu"bic*al\ (-b?-kal), a. [L. cubicus, Gr. ?????: cf. F. cubique. See Cube.]

  1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

  2. (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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cubic

1550s, from Middle French cubique (14c.), from Latin cubicus, from Greek kybikos, from kybos "cube" (see cube (n.)). Related: Cubical.

Wiktionary
cubic
  1. 1 (context geometry English) Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice. 2 (context algebraic geometry English) Of a class of polynomial of the form a.x^3 +

  2. x^2 +

  3. x + d 3 (context crystallography English) Having three equal axes and all angles 90°. n. (context algebraic geometry English) A cubic curve.

WordNet
cubic

adj. having three dimensions [syn: three-dimensional] [ant: linear, planar]

Wikipedia
Cubic

Cubic may refer to:

Cubic (TV series)

Cubic is a Thai drama that stars Tanin Manoonsilp and Chalida Vijitvongthong. It aired on Channel 3 on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 8 March 2014 to 12 April 2014 .

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.