单词 | cubical |
释义 | cubicaladj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to a cube; of the form of a cube, cube-shaped. (Now more usual than cubic in this sense.) cubical powder = cube powder n. at cube n.1 Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > cube squarea1300 cubic1551 cubical1592 six-square1594 cubal1657 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 70v In the lowest Cubicall Figure..were ingrauen Greeke Letters. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. B iv How to measure a Cubical vessel. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 308 The small grains of sea salt and of lead are cubical. 1817 M. Keating Trav. I. 203 Houses..mostly of cubical forms. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 103 A nearly cubical piece of a long epidermal cell. 2. Mensuration. = cubic adj. 2 (Now Obsolete in cubical foot and the like; and less common than cubic in other applications.) cubical mile n. =cubic mile n. at cubic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > [adjective] > expressing cubic measure solidc1430 cubical?a1560 cubic1660 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > [noun] > cubic mile cubical mile1698 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. iv. sig. Q iij So many cubicall feete is in the hollowe vessell. 1660 T. Willsford Scales Commerce & Trade 197 Each of these Segments contains 50 cubical yards of earth. 1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 129 Twenty six Po's will pour into the Sea one Cubical mile of water in a day. 1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) I. xi. 498 Multiply by 1728, the number of cubical inches in a cubical foot. 1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci. Chem. 183 100 cubical inches. 1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) 39 To determine the cubical dilatation of a solid. 3. Arithmetic, Algebra, etc. = cubic adj. 3. Obsolete except in names of certain cubic curves, as cubical hyperbola, etc. cubical parabola n. = cubic parabola at cubic adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [adjective] > multiple > of self or forming powers solidc1430 quadratec1450 wholec1450 cubic1551 squared1557 sursolid1557 cubical?a1560 zenzic1571 quadrato-quadratic1647 quadrato-cubic1654 biquadratic1668 quadrato-quadratical1668 square-squarea1679 powerfula1690 biquadrate1806 quintic1851 sextic1851 superlinear1865 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [adjective] > relating to curve of specific order conchoidal1666 semi-cubic1673 semi-cubical1674 cubical1728 cissoidal1796 bicircular1867 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. ix. sig. R ij The roote cubicall of your Quotiente is the side of the lesser Cone or Pyramis. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 209 Quadrate and cubicall numbers. View more context for this quotation 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Parabola If a2x = y3; they call it a Cubical Paraboloid. 1873 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (ed. 2) xviii. §252 The curve y2 = x2 (x−a)..is a cubical parabola having a conjugate point. = cubic n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > the highest power of the variable > named according to this cubical1676 cubic1799 quintic1851 quadric1854 sextic1855 octavic1856 octic1876 twelfthic1882 1676 T. Baker Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 13 All cubicals being reducible..to three equations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1560 |
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