cubicadjective
uk/ˈkjuː.bɪk/us/ˈkjuː.bɪk/specializedused in units of volume to show when the length of something has been multiplied by its width and height
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Measurements of volume
- barrel
- bushel
- cc
- cl
- decilitre
- dl
- fl oz
- fluid ounce
- heaped
- heaping
- hl
- l
- level
- liter
- magnum
- ml
- pint
- qt
- quart
- tin
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Measurements in general
Examples from literature
- Between November and March, about 13,000 cubic meters of water per second fall into the river below.
- You can hear it long before you see it – 935 cubic meters of water fall every second!
- At the rate of ten cubic yards a-year, the stream has taken several hundred thousand years to make the glen.
- It is asserted that millions of cubic miles of some comets tails would not make a cubic inch of matter solid as iron.
- The explosion produced an excavation measuring fully a cubic yard.
- The quantity of aqueous vapor that a cubic foot of air can hold in suspension, when it is saturated, varies very much with the temperature.
- The quantity of mud discharged, one hundred and seventy cubic feet per second.