WordNet
n. a metric measure of volume or capacity equal to a cube 1 millimeter on each edge [syn: cubic millimetre]
Usage examples of "cubic millimeter".
The ship, her restarted inertial drive noisily clattering, the thin, high whine of the Mannschenn Drive pervading every cubic millimeter of her, was speeding through the warped continuum toward her destination.
Millimeter by cubic millimeter the mindrot could be orchestrated in their psychoactive secretion.
Pitt took several deep breaths, hyperventilating to purge the carbon dioxide from his lungs, and then inhaled until every cubic millimeter was filled with oxygen before slipping under the water.
Their spy-rays would have combed him, millimeter by plotted -cubic millimeter: they knew exactly where his Lens was, as well as he did himself.
Their spy-rays would have combed him, millimeter by plotted-cubic millimeter: they knew exactly where his Lens was, as well as he did himself.
In the first pattern, they had covered every cubic millimeter within twenty thousand kilometers of the so-called derelict, which was already more than the maximum range of the Enterprise transporters.
Millimeter by cubic millimeter he scanned the innermost details of its massive structure--the concrete, the neocarballoy, the steel, the heat-conductors and the closely-spaced gas cells.
A few grains of the hard-to-get elements go a long way when the whole apparatus is less than a cubic millimeter in volume.
One cubic millimeter of the substance, established in a self-sustaining manner, would leap from point to point on a planet's surface, eradicating anything that lived, devouring any organic substrate on which future life depended.
And every thing and every entity approaching New York Spaceport was combed, literally by the cubic millimeter.