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cubicle|ˈkjuːbɪk(ə)l|
[ad. L. cubicul-um bedchamber, f. cubāre to recline.]
1. A bedchamber: in the general sense obs. since the l6th c., but re-introduced in modern use, esp. in English public schools, for one of the series of small separate sleeping chambers, which now often take the place of an undivided dormitory. Hence gen. any small partitioned space; spec. a carrel in a library.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 72/1, I was delyueryd of a chyld in my cubycle. 1494Fabyan Chron. ii. xl. 28 He called theym one by one..into his secrete cubicle or chambre. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 5, I rose vp shortly fro my cubycle preparat aboute mydnyght. 1858Sat. Rev. 6 Nov. 449/1 The dormitory was a large chamber divided into about a dozen cubicles, or small sleeping apartments, by wooden partitions and doors which rose within a few feet of the ceiling. 1926Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Oct. 297 Seminars, cubicles, and private studies will be provided for..advanced students, and visiting scholars. 1938K. M. B. Cross Mod. Public Baths 61 Dressing cubicles are not required in these changing rooms, where their use is confined to children. 1960H. Littlewood Learning to Swim ii. 19 Go to your cubicle or the changing room and make sure that you dry yourself thoroughly. 1961T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 69/1 Carrel... Also called cubicle or stall. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 246 Control cubicle, the soundproof room equipped with control desk. 1963Times 22 Apr. 2/6 No one seems to know whether cubicles originated in England or America, and the cows don't care, because cubicles are the last word in cow comfort... Some of the cleanest cows to be seen these days..are those in cubicle installations. 1971Hampshire Gaz. (Northampton, Mass.) 19 Feb. 9/4 It adorns the cubicle next to the one marked ‘Men’.
attrib.1891Daily News 11 Nov. 2/7 In the Victoria Home both the dormitory system and the cubicle system had been introduced.
2. Electr. Engineering. A chamber or compartment to hold a switch-gear apparatus.
1911J. F. C. Snell Power House Design 347 The oil⁓break switches are contained within glazed brick cubicles. Ibid. 349 The operating gallery and cubicle gallery in the Bahia Blanca power house. 1927Daily Tel. 14 Mar. 4 Switch-gear cells and cubicles constructed of moulded stone. 1930[see armour-clad ppl. a.]. 1968F. Kertesz Lang. Nuclear Sci. (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab. TM 2367) 18 Cubicle referred to the power supply and control center of an individual calutron. |