Crossword clues for cubit
cubit
- Biblical measurement
- Biblical length
- Measure from the elbow to the end of the middle finger
- One of 300 in the length of Noah's ark
- Ancient measure of length
- An ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm
- Early measure of length
- Forearm length, in biblical times
- Copper coin couple found in yard, perhaps, long ago
- Old measure of copper coin?
- Ark unit
- Ark measurement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cubit \Cu"bit\ (k[=u]"b[i^]t), n. [L. cubitum, cubitus; elbow, ell, cubit, fr. (because the elbow serves for leaning upon) cubare to lie down, recline; cf. Gr. ky`biton elbow, ky`ptein to bend, stoop, kyfo`s bent, stooping, humpbacked. Cf. Incumbent, Covey.]
(Anat.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. [Obs.]
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A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.
Note: The cubit varies in length in different countries, the Roman cubit being 17.47 inches, the Greek 18.20, the Hebrew somewhat longer, and the English 18 inches.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient unit of measure based on the forearm from elbow to fingertip, usually from 18 to 22 inches, early 14c., from Latin cubitum "the elbow," from PIE *keu(b)- "to bend." Such a measure, known by a word meaning "forearm" or the like, was known to many peoples (Greek pekhys, Hebrew ammah, English ell).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm. 2 (context anatomy English) The ulna.
WordNet
n. an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm
Wikipedia
CUBIT is an open source multi-touch system designed by Stefan Hechenberger and Addie Wagenknecht for Nortd Labs. It was developed to "demystify multitouch" technology through making its software and hardware open source and is a direct competitor of Microsoft Surface.
Cubit is an ancient unit based on the forearm length from the middle finger tip to the elbow bottom.
Cubit may also refer to:
- CUBIT, a multi-touch interface
- Cubit bone or ulna, a bone in the arm
- Cubit, a form of currency from the 1978 and 2004 TV series Battlestar Galactica
- Cubit, an item in the Mixels cartoon TV series
Usage examples of "cubit".
Each white granite wall stone is an oblong two cubits long, one cubit high, and approximately one thick, from what Lorn can tell.
A low ground mist, no more than a cubit high, covers the grass to the south and west of the waystation, fading away over the salted ground that borders the ward-wall.
Set on the granite floor tiles, just in front of the desk, there is a foot chest, two cubits broad, one cubit high and one deep.
Anything that moves branches a cubit thick and whose power and mass move the entire fallen crown is something that will require more than a single firelance.
The baskets are small, no more than two cubits long and slightly less than a cubit in diameter-small enough to be fastened behind his saddle.
Each page of the book is a cubit in height and two thirds that in width.
The bed of the log cart was nearly a cubit lower than that of the timber wagon.
While the four men loaded the cut logs onto the wagon, Cerryl had continued sawing the smaller lengths of pole pine branches into sections a cubit long, wood for cooking and heat, stacking each length neatly in the pile.
When the long sliding door had but a cubit left to close, Dylert gestured to Cerryl.
He closed the circular catch basin cover, not too much more than half a cubit across.
Two silvers for a scarf barely a cubit and a half long and half that in width?
To the right of the walkway was the drainage way that carried the sewage, the surface of the turbid waters another cubit or so below the walkway.
Once more, Myral repeated the process, and Cerryl tried to capture the feel of it, the constriction and the release as the chaos-fire arced away from the older mage, leaving another circle of clean brick, perhaps a cubit in diameter.
Something protruded from the drainage way, not a great deal, perhaps a half cubit above the water level, and he thought the water level was lower on the other side.
This time the fire arced too low, barely scouring the bricks a cubit above the water level.