Definition of cubic in English:

cubic

adjective ˈkjuːbɪkˈkjubɪk

1Having the shape of a cube.
a cubic room
Example sentencesExamples
- When the offending device had finally been removed, she didn't notice even then; her mind had been made as pure as the cubic room she was contained in.
- The five-story addition echoes the existing cubic structure and is connected to it by a two-story link that will house several galleries and public spaces.
- The work is described as a large cubic structure that can be triggered by a control unit to affect the earth's speed of rotation.
- The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
- It turns out that these metal-organic building blocks crystallize in the form of a three-dimensional grid with very large cubic cavities.
- Into this cubic void, subsidiary planes of glass are placed so that the immediate lobby reads as a transparent box inside a larger, virtual box.
- Even though there was a complete absence of light, somehow Terry knew that he was in a cubic room, and there was no way to get out.
- Located in a sprawling storefront loft on Sherbrooke just west of St-Denis, the glass-fronted cubic space with ultra-high ceilings has a museum-of-the-future feel to it.
- The main corridor then leads past two shops featuring clothing, perfumes, jewelry and souvenirs, and a double row of cubic insets displaying colorful Greek rocks and gems.
- This ratio, one of his own devising, has remained virtually constant in all of his cubic openwork structures.
- The food had been made into small rectangular, spherical or cubic portions, in contrast to those consumed by American or Russian astronauts, who sucked food from tube-type containers.
- The cool rationality of the grid spells order and control - no mysterious darkness or dirty corners - and the geometry of the cubic masses registers timeless perfection.
- La Defense is a strikingly modern part of Paris, dominated by the gleaming cubic shape of the Arche de la Defense.
- There's nothing new about his style, for it reminds me of Andri Masson's painting, especially the way he strokes the brush and plays with cubic shapes.
- They usually were of cubic shape, and were sealed with an airtight lock that ran three-quarters of the way around the middle of the box, leaving one side to hinge on.
- Almost square in plan, the mosque has a flat roof, making it cubic in shape.
- There are also a few huge boulders which were chiselled into cubic shapes centuries ago and now serve as surreal houses and stables.
- Like the others, the cubic room had two small beds, two desks, a row of different robes hanging from hooks, and a band of light-refracting crystal lining the wall.
- That was too familiar and so were the cubic structures that rose out of the ground.
- The upper portion of the portal is formed by a composition of squares and cubic inscriptions in carved relief.
Synonyms
quadrilateral, rectangular, oblong, right-angled, at right angles, perpendicular
1. 1.1 Denoting a crystal system or three-dimensional geometrical arrangement having three equal axes at right angles.
  the sodium and chloride ions form two intersecting cubic structures
  Example sentencesExamples
  Between 417°C and its melting point of 1493°C, cobalt has a face-centered cubic structure.
  Although it exhibits cubic crystal symmetry, its optical behavior is not identical in all orientations.
  Groups of well-formed octahedrally modified cubic crystals were found, with individuals to 3.5 cm across.
  Single brilliant, striated, cubic crystals to 2.5 cm on edge were found in soft greasy masses of pyrophyllite that was easily removed from the specimens.
  Another relatively new discovery is pyrite as attractive, sharp, cubic crystals, to 1 cm on edge, altered to goethite.
  When sufficient alloying element is added, it is possible to preserve the face-centered cubic austenite at room temperature, either in a stable or metastable condition.
  Diamonds, pyrite and garnet are examples of cubic crystals.
  Diamond is also a light material whose atoms are covalently bonded and arrayed in a cubic structure, whereas osmium is heavy, metallic, and has hexagonally organized atoms.
  Based on x-ray diffraction data, the authors concluded that the observed aggregates represented dispersed particles of cubic structure.
  Some of the gold formed discrete isolated crystals to 2 mm perched on tiny cubic pyrite crystals in vugs that range to 1 cm across.
  Most of these specimens exhibit crystals that are cubic in habit; however, octahedra of both blue-gray and medium green have also been common.
  Some of these larger crystals are elongate, giving them a tetragonal rather than cubic appearance.
  At this temperature the lattice constant of the cubic structure progressively decreases with increasing temperature.
  She noted that many dark purple to nearly black cubic crystals exhibit a stairstep growth pattern.
  The Lena River in Yakutsk, Russia, is another classic source of cubic crystals.
  During the last four years we made several unsuccessful attempts to locate additional groups of cubic copper crystals.
  Sphalerite is cubic with crystals commonly tetrahedral or dodecahedral and frequently complex and distorted.
  Suppose a walker stands at a vertex of a three-dimensional cubic grid.
  Exceptionally sharp groups of skeletal cubic silver crystals have been collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine.
  Table salt, for example, has a characteristically cubic crystalline shape that can be observed with the naked eye.
2Denoting a unit of measurement equal to the volume of a cube whose side is one of the linear units specified.
15 billion cubic metres of water
Example sentencesExamples
- Webster's would say that volume is the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional figure as measured in cubic units.
- Let us consider the density of the egg to be 1.3 grams per cubic centimeter.
- The price of the gas in Shanghai will be 1.32 yuan per cubic metre.
- The treatment plant currently processes 1.2 million cubic metres of water a day, representing 40 per cent of the total water used in Hong Kong each day.
- A 737 freighter can carry about 16 tonnes, and has about 120 cubic metres of volume.
- This waterfall is over 1,700 meters wide and drops an average of 550,000 cubic meters of water over the edge every minute.
- The Adamstown Treatment Plant, at Kilmeaden will be duplicated, thus increasing its output capacity from 32,500 to 53,000 cubic metres of water per day.
- At 4:35 pm, the flow volume reached 750 cubic metres per second.
- Lacking some 2.6 billion cubic metres of water a year, Shaanxi Province is suffering from insufficient rainfall and a low water utilization ratio.
- Bailing of the waste plastic will take place on site and each bail will measure about one cubic metre.
- As the earth's crust was forced upwards, it displaced hundreds of cubic metres of water along an area as large as 1000 km long and 100 km wide.
- One cubic metre of spruce weighs about 450 kilograms.
- For eight months up to eight Russian and international volunteers at a time called their combined 300 cubic metre volume home.
- Basra's water authority is constructing 12 small purification units that will eventually produce 25 cubic meters of clean water every hour.
- Two thousand Vietnamese rivers carry nearly a trillion cubic meters of water to the sea every year, fed by rains that in some parts of the country total an astonishing 10 feet a year.
- It is estimated that a million cubic meters of water is capable of creating 200 jobs in direct and indirect agriculturally generated occupations.
- They sprayed the flow with 6 million cubic meters of water, hoping to cool the lava enough - by about 50 degrees Celsius - so that it would solidify.
- The per capita availability of water was 6,008 cubic metres in 1947.
- The pool takes up a volume of 66 cubic metres and weighs over 80 metric tons.
- Other units, such as cubic meters or imperial gallons, can be converted to the U.S. barrel fairly easily.
3Involving the cube (and no higher power) of a quantity or variable.
a cubic equation
Example sentencesExamples
- We are told that there are similar formulae for roots of cubic and quartic polynomial equations, but these are more complicated, and so, in school we are not taught these formulas.
- What are the general solutions to cubic and quartic polynomial equations?
- Like Mazur, Pesic starts at the beginning with the irrationality of square roots and proceeds to the solution of cubic and quartic equations.
- The first person known to have solved cubic equations algebraically was del Ferro but he told nobody of his achievement.
- Historically, imaginary numbers first came to light when trying to solve cubic equations, rather than quadratics.
- Lagrange's main object was to find out why cubic and quartic equations could be solved algebraically.
- He solved cubic equations by extending an algorithm for finding cube roots.
- Khayyam also wrote that he hoped to give a full description of the algebraic solution of cubic equations in a later work.

noun ˈkjuːbɪkˈkjubɪk

Mathematics

A cubic equation, or a curve described by one.
Example sentencesExamples
- After subsequent work failed to solve equations of higher degree, Lagrange undertook an analysis in 1770 to explain why the methods for cubics and quartics are successful.
- Cardan noticed something strange when he applied his formula to certain cubics.
- The yield and tensile strengths of metals that crystallize in the body-centered cubic from iron, molybdenum, vanadium and chromium depend greatly on temperature.
- He wrote articles on such diverse topics as twisted cubics, developable surfaces, the theory of conics, the theory of plane curves, third- and fourth-degree surfaces, statics and projective geometry.
- In this classification of cubics, Newton gives four classes of equation.

Derivatives

cubical

adjective ˈkjuːbɪk(ə)lˈkjubək(ə)l

Played in an eight by eight-meter court inside a wire cubical cage three meters high, full body contact with other players is the beauty of the game.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm staring at a neat cubical wombat dropping, perched on the side of the path.
- In the first experiment on the combustion of the diamond it was placed in the middle of a glass globe of 18 or 20 cubical inches capacity supported in a cradle of platinum fixed on a prop of the same metal.
- In the Eklakhi Tomb we see for the first time an Islamic curved roof inspired from the bamboo version, and the slight slope on the roof is a departure from traditional cubical construction and served to throw off rainwater.
- The most obvious way of implementing this idea would be to partition space into tiny cubical volumes.

cubically

adverb

You have to think vertically, laterally and cubically to make the most of storage space in your home.
Example sentencesExamples
- The substrates are first manufactured independently of one another in the manufacture of such a cubically integrated circuit arrangement.
- Increasing taper has been shown to increase overrun when logs have been board-foot scaled; the exact opposite occurs when the logs are cubically scaled.
- His poems build cubically, back and front and side-angle at once, with glimpses and partials, memories and immediacies held up in time.
- These cubes alternate with cubically coordinated void spaces along the axial directions of the structure.

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'involving the cube (and no higher power)'): from Old French cubique, or via Latin from Greek kubikos, from kobos 'cube'.

Rhymes

cherubic, pubic

Definition of cubic in US English:

cubic

adjectiveˈkyo͞obikˈkjubɪk

1Having the shape of a cube.
a cubic room
Example sentencesExamples
- There are also a few huge boulders which were chiselled into cubic shapes centuries ago and now serve as surreal houses and stables.
- It turns out that these metal-organic building blocks crystallize in the form of a three-dimensional grid with very large cubic cavities.
- The five-story addition echoes the existing cubic structure and is connected to it by a two-story link that will house several galleries and public spaces.
- That was too familiar and so were the cubic structures that rose out of the ground.
- The upper portion of the portal is formed by a composition of squares and cubic inscriptions in carved relief.
- There's nothing new about his style, for it reminds me of Andri Masson's painting, especially the way he strokes the brush and plays with cubic shapes.
- La Defense is a strikingly modern part of Paris, dominated by the gleaming cubic shape of the Arche de la Defense.
- The food had been made into small rectangular, spherical or cubic portions, in contrast to those consumed by American or Russian astronauts, who sucked food from tube-type containers.
- Located in a sprawling storefront loft on Sherbrooke just west of St-Denis, the glass-fronted cubic space with ultra-high ceilings has a museum-of-the-future feel to it.
- The cool rationality of the grid spells order and control - no mysterious darkness or dirty corners - and the geometry of the cubic masses registers timeless perfection.
- The main corridor then leads past two shops featuring clothing, perfumes, jewelry and souvenirs, and a double row of cubic insets displaying colorful Greek rocks and gems.
- Even though there was a complete absence of light, somehow Terry knew that he was in a cubic room, and there was no way to get out.
- This ratio, one of his own devising, has remained virtually constant in all of his cubic openwork structures.
- Like the others, the cubic room had two small beds, two desks, a row of different robes hanging from hooks, and a band of light-refracting crystal lining the wall.
- Almost square in plan, the mosque has a flat roof, making it cubic in shape.
- The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
- They usually were of cubic shape, and were sealed with an airtight lock that ran three-quarters of the way around the middle of the box, leaving one side to hinge on.
- The work is described as a large cubic structure that can be triggered by a control unit to affect the earth's speed of rotation.
- Into this cubic void, subsidiary planes of glass are placed so that the immediate lobby reads as a transparent box inside a larger, virtual box.
- When the offending device had finally been removed, she didn't notice even then; her mind had been made as pure as the cubic room she was contained in.
Synonyms
quadrilateral, rectangular, oblong, right-angled, at right angles, perpendicular
1. 1.1 Denoting a unit of measurement equal to the volume of a cube whose side is one of the linear unit specified.
  15 billion cubic meters of water
  Example sentencesExamples
  They sprayed the flow with 6 million cubic meters of water, hoping to cool the lava enough - by about 50 degrees Celsius - so that it would solidify.
  Let us consider the density of the egg to be 1.3 grams per cubic centimeter.
  As the earth's crust was forced upwards, it displaced hundreds of cubic metres of water along an area as large as 1000 km long and 100 km wide.
  For eight months up to eight Russian and international volunteers at a time called their combined 300 cubic metre volume home.
  This waterfall is over 1,700 meters wide and drops an average of 550,000 cubic meters of water over the edge every minute.
  One cubic metre of spruce weighs about 450 kilograms.
  The Adamstown Treatment Plant, at Kilmeaden will be duplicated, thus increasing its output capacity from 32,500 to 53,000 cubic metres of water per day.
  At 4:35 pm, the flow volume reached 750 cubic metres per second.
  A 737 freighter can carry about 16 tonnes, and has about 120 cubic metres of volume.
  Lacking some 2.6 billion cubic metres of water a year, Shaanxi Province is suffering from insufficient rainfall and a low water utilization ratio.
  The pool takes up a volume of 66 cubic metres and weighs over 80 metric tons.
  The price of the gas in Shanghai will be 1.32 yuan per cubic metre.
  Basra's water authority is constructing 12 small purification units that will eventually produce 25 cubic meters of clean water every hour.
  Other units, such as cubic meters or imperial gallons, can be converted to the U.S. barrel fairly easily.
  Two thousand Vietnamese rivers carry nearly a trillion cubic meters of water to the sea every year, fed by rains that in some parts of the country total an astonishing 10 feet a year.
  Bailing of the waste plastic will take place on site and each bail will measure about one cubic metre.
  The per capita availability of water was 6,008 cubic metres in 1947.
  Webster's would say that volume is the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional figure as measured in cubic units.
  The treatment plant currently processes 1.2 million cubic metres of water a day, representing 40 per cent of the total water used in Hong Kong each day.
  It is estimated that a million cubic meters of water is capable of creating 200 jobs in direct and indirect agriculturally generated occupations.
2. 1.2 Involving the cube (and no higher power) of a quantity or variable.
  a cubic equation
  Example sentencesExamples
  We are told that there are similar formulae for roots of cubic and quartic polynomial equations, but these are more complicated, and so, in school we are not taught these formulas.
  He solved cubic equations by extending an algorithm for finding cube roots.
  The first person known to have solved cubic equations algebraically was del Ferro but he told nobody of his achievement.
  Historically, imaginary numbers first came to light when trying to solve cubic equations, rather than quadratics.
  Like Mazur, Pesic starts at the beginning with the irrationality of square roots and proceeds to the solution of cubic and quartic equations.
  Lagrange's main object was to find out why cubic and quartic equations could be solved algebraically.
  What are the general solutions to cubic and quartic polynomial equations?
  Khayyam also wrote that he hoped to give a full description of the algebraic solution of cubic equations in a later work.
3. 1.3 Of or denoting a crystal system or three-dimensional geometric arrangement having three equal axes at right angles.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Diamond is also a light material whose atoms are covalently bonded and arrayed in a cubic structure, whereas osmium is heavy, metallic, and has hexagonally organized atoms.
  Sphalerite is cubic with crystals commonly tetrahedral or dodecahedral and frequently complex and distorted.
  The Lena River in Yakutsk, Russia, is another classic source of cubic crystals.
  At this temperature the lattice constant of the cubic structure progressively decreases with increasing temperature.
  Although it exhibits cubic crystal symmetry, its optical behavior is not identical in all orientations.
  Groups of well-formed octahedrally modified cubic crystals were found, with individuals to 3.5 cm across.
  During the last four years we made several unsuccessful attempts to locate additional groups of cubic copper crystals.
  Between 417°C and its melting point of 1493°C, cobalt has a face-centered cubic structure.
  Based on x-ray diffraction data, the authors concluded that the observed aggregates represented dispersed particles of cubic structure.
  Another relatively new discovery is pyrite as attractive, sharp, cubic crystals, to 1 cm on edge, altered to goethite.
  Some of these larger crystals are elongate, giving them a tetragonal rather than cubic appearance.
  When sufficient alloying element is added, it is possible to preserve the face-centered cubic austenite at room temperature, either in a stable or metastable condition.
  She noted that many dark purple to nearly black cubic crystals exhibit a stairstep growth pattern.
  Table salt, for example, has a characteristically cubic crystalline shape that can be observed with the naked eye.
  Exceptionally sharp groups of skeletal cubic silver crystals have been collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine.
  Suppose a walker stands at a vertex of a three-dimensional cubic grid.
  Single brilliant, striated, cubic crystals to 2.5 cm on edge were found in soft greasy masses of pyrophyllite that was easily removed from the specimens.
  Diamonds, pyrite and garnet are examples of cubic crystals.
  Some of the gold formed discrete isolated crystals to 2 mm perched on tiny cubic pyrite crystals in vugs that range to 1 cm across.
  Most of these specimens exhibit crystals that are cubic in habit; however, octahedra of both blue-gray and medium green have also been common.

nounˈkyo͞obikˈkjubɪk

Mathematics

A cubic equation, or a curve described by one.
Example sentencesExamples
- He wrote articles on such diverse topics as twisted cubics, developable surfaces, the theory of conics, the theory of plane curves, third- and fourth-degree surfaces, statics and projective geometry.
- Cardan noticed something strange when he applied his formula to certain cubics.
- The yield and tensile strengths of metals that crystallize in the body-centered cubic from iron, molybdenum, vanadium and chromium depend greatly on temperature.
- After subsequent work failed to solve equations of higher degree, Lagrange undertook an analysis in 1770 to explain why the methods for cubics and quartics are successful.
- In this classification of cubics, Newton gives four classes of equation.

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘involving the cube (and no higher power)’): from Old French cubique, or via Latin from Greek kubikos, from kobos ‘cube’.

单词	cubic
释义	Definition of cubic in English: cubic adjective ˈkjuːbɪkˈkjubɪk 1Having the shape of a cube. a cubic room Example sentencesExamples When the offending device had finally been removed, she didn't notice even then; her mind had been made as pure as the cubic room she was contained in. The five-story addition echoes the existing cubic structure and is connected to it by a two-story link that will house several galleries and public spaces. The work is described as a large cubic structure that can be triggered by a control unit to affect the earth's speed of rotation. The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face. It turns out that these metal-organic building blocks crystallize in the form of a three-dimensional grid with very large cubic cavities. Into this cubic void, subsidiary planes of glass are placed so that the immediate lobby reads as a transparent box inside a larger, virtual box. Even though there was a complete absence of light, somehow Terry knew that he was in a cubic room, and there was no way to get out. Located in a sprawling storefront loft on Sherbrooke just west of St-Denis, the glass-fronted cubic space with ultra-high ceilings has a museum-of-the-future feel to it. The main corridor then leads past two shops featuring clothing, perfumes, jewelry and souvenirs, and a double row of cubic insets displaying colorful Greek rocks and gems. This ratio, one of his own devising, has remained virtually constant in all of his cubic openwork structures. The food had been made into small rectangular, spherical or cubic portions, in contrast to those consumed by American or Russian astronauts, who sucked food from tube-type containers. The cool rationality of the grid spells order and control - no mysterious darkness or dirty corners - and the geometry of the cubic masses registers timeless perfection. La Defense is a strikingly modern part of Paris, dominated by the gleaming cubic shape of the Arche de la Defense. There's nothing new about his style, for it reminds me of Andri Masson's painting, especially the way he strokes the brush and plays with cubic shapes. They usually were of cubic shape, and were sealed with an airtight lock that ran three-quarters of the way around the middle of the box, leaving one side to hinge on. Almost square in plan, the mosque has a flat roof, making it cubic in shape. There are also a few huge boulders which were chiselled into cubic shapes centuries ago and now serve as surreal houses and stables. Like the others, the cubic room had two small beds, two desks, a row of different robes hanging from hooks, and a band of light-refracting crystal lining the wall. That was too familiar and so were the cubic structures that rose out of the ground. The upper portion of the portal is formed by a composition of squares and cubic inscriptions in carved relief. Synonyms quadrilateral, rectangular, oblong, right-angled, at right angles, perpendicular 1.1 Denoting a crystal system or three-dimensional geometrical arrangement having three equal axes at right angles. the sodium and chloride ions form two intersecting cubic structures Example sentencesExamples Between 417°C and its melting point of 1493°C, cobalt has a face-centered cubic structure. Although it exhibits cubic crystal symmetry, its optical behavior is not identical in all orientations. Groups of well-formed octahedrally modified cubic crystals were found, with individuals to 3.5 cm across. Single brilliant, striated, cubic crystals to 2.5 cm on edge were found in soft greasy masses of pyrophyllite that was easily removed from the specimens. Another relatively new discovery is pyrite as attractive, sharp, cubic crystals, to 1 cm on edge, altered to goethite. When sufficient alloying element is added, it is possible to preserve the face-centered cubic austenite at room temperature, either in a stable or metastable condition. Diamonds, pyrite and garnet are examples of cubic crystals. Diamond is also a light material whose atoms are covalently bonded and arrayed in a cubic structure, whereas osmium is heavy, metallic, and has hexagonally organized atoms. Based on x-ray diffraction data, the authors concluded that the observed aggregates represented dispersed particles of cubic structure. Some of the gold formed discrete isolated crystals to 2 mm perched on tiny cubic pyrite crystals in vugs that range to 1 cm across. Most of these specimens exhibit crystals that are cubic in habit; however, octahedra of both blue-gray and medium green have also been common. Some of these larger crystals are elongate, giving them a tetragonal rather than cubic appearance. At this temperature the lattice constant of the cubic structure progressively decreases with increasing temperature. She noted that many dark purple to nearly black cubic crystals exhibit a stairstep growth pattern. The Lena River in Yakutsk, Russia, is another classic source of cubic crystals. During the last four years we made several unsuccessful attempts to locate additional groups of cubic copper crystals. Sphalerite is cubic with crystals commonly tetrahedral or dodecahedral and frequently complex and distorted. Suppose a walker stands at a vertex of a three-dimensional cubic grid. Exceptionally sharp groups of skeletal cubic silver crystals have been collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine. Table salt, for example, has a characteristically cubic crystalline shape that can be observed with the naked eye. 2Denoting a unit of measurement equal to the volume of a cube whose side is one of the linear units specified. 15 billion cubic metres of water Example sentencesExamples Webster's would say that volume is the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional figure as measured in cubic units. Let us consider the density of the egg to be 1.3 grams per cubic centimeter. The price of the gas in Shanghai will be 1.32 yuan per cubic metre. The treatment plant currently processes 1.2 million cubic metres of water a day, representing 40 per cent of the total water used in Hong Kong each day. A 737 freighter can carry about 16 tonnes, and has about 120 cubic metres of volume. This waterfall is over 1,700 meters wide and drops an average of 550,000 cubic meters of water over the edge every minute. The Adamstown Treatment Plant, at Kilmeaden will be duplicated, thus increasing its output capacity from 32,500 to 53,000 cubic metres of water per day. At 4:35 pm, the flow volume reached 750 cubic metres per second. Lacking some 2.6 billion cubic metres of water a year, Shaanxi Province is suffering from insufficient rainfall and a low water utilization ratio. Bailing of the waste plastic will take place on site and each bail will measure about one cubic metre. As the earth's crust was forced upwards, it displaced hundreds of cubic metres of water along an area as large as 1000 km long and 100 km wide. One cubic metre of spruce weighs about 450 kilograms. For eight months up to eight Russian and international volunteers at a time called their combined 300 cubic metre volume home. Basra's water authority is constructing 12 small purification units that will eventually produce 25 cubic meters of clean water every hour. Two thousand Vietnamese rivers carry nearly a trillion cubic meters of water to the sea every year, fed by rains that in some parts of the country total an astonishing 10 feet a year. It is estimated that a million cubic meters of water is capable of creating 200 jobs in direct and indirect agriculturally generated occupations. They sprayed the flow with 6 million cubic meters of water, hoping to cool the lava enough - by about 50 degrees Celsius - so that it would solidify. The per capita availability of water was 6,008 cubic metres in 1947. The pool takes up a volume of 66 cubic metres and weighs over 80 metric tons. Other units, such as cubic meters or imperial gallons, can be converted to the U.S. barrel fairly easily. 3Involving the cube (and no higher power) of a quantity or variable. a cubic equation Example sentencesExamples We are told that there are similar formulae for roots of cubic and quartic polynomial equations, but these are more complicated, and so, in school we are not taught these formulas. What are the general solutions to cubic and quartic polynomial equations? Like Mazur, Pesic starts at the beginning with the irrationality of square roots and proceeds to the solution of cubic and quartic equations. The first person known to have solved cubic equations algebraically was del Ferro but he told nobody of his achievement. Historically, imaginary numbers first came to light when trying to solve cubic equations, rather than quadratics. Lagrange's main object was to find out why cubic and quartic equations could be solved algebraically. He solved cubic equations by extending an algorithm for finding cube roots. Khayyam also wrote that he hoped to give a full description of the algebraic solution of cubic equations in a later work. noun ˈkjuːbɪkˈkjubɪk Mathematics A cubic equation, or a curve described by one. Example sentencesExamples After subsequent work failed to solve equations of higher degree, Lagrange undertook an analysis in 1770 to explain why the methods for cubics and quartics are successful. Cardan noticed something strange when he applied his formula to certain cubics. The yield and tensile strengths of metals that crystallize in the body-centered cubic from iron, molybdenum, vanadium and chromium depend greatly on temperature. He wrote articles on such diverse topics as twisted cubics, developable surfaces, the theory of conics, the theory of plane curves, third- and fourth-degree surfaces, statics and projective geometry. In this classification of cubics, Newton gives four classes of equation. Derivatives cubical adjective ˈkjuːbɪk(ə)lˈkjubək(ə)l Played in an eight by eight-meter court inside a wire cubical cage three meters high, full body contact with other players is the beauty of the game. Example sentencesExamples I'm staring at a neat cubical wombat dropping, perched on the side of the path. In the first experiment on the combustion of the diamond it was placed in the middle of a glass globe of 18 or 20 cubical inches capacity supported in a cradle of platinum fixed on a prop of the same metal. In the Eklakhi Tomb we see for the first time an Islamic curved roof inspired from the bamboo version, and the slight slope on the roof is a departure from traditional cubical construction and served to throw off rainwater. The most obvious way of implementing this idea would be to partition space into tiny cubical volumes. cubically adverb You have to think vertically, laterally and cubically to make the most of storage space in your home. Example sentencesExamples The substrates are first manufactured independently of one another in the manufacture of such a cubically integrated circuit arrangement. Increasing taper has been shown to increase overrun when logs have been board-foot scaled; the exact opposite occurs when the logs are cubically scaled. His poems build cubically, back and front and side-angle at once, with glimpses and partials, memories and immediacies held up in time. These cubes alternate with cubically coordinated void spaces along the axial directions of the structure. Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'involving the cube (and no higher power)'): from Old French cubique, or via Latin from Greek kubikos, from kobos 'cube'. Rhymes cherubic, pubic Definition of cubic in US English: cubic adjectiveˈkyo͞obikˈkjubɪk 1Having the shape of a cube. a cubic room Example sentencesExamples There are also a few huge boulders which were chiselled into cubic shapes centuries ago and now serve as surreal houses and stables. It turns out that these metal-organic building blocks crystallize in the form of a three-dimensional grid with very large cubic cavities. The five-story addition echoes the existing cubic structure and is connected to it by a two-story link that will house several galleries and public spaces. That was too familiar and so were the cubic structures that rose out of the ground. The upper portion of the portal is formed by a composition of squares and cubic inscriptions in carved relief. There's nothing new about his style, for it reminds me of Andri Masson's painting, especially the way he strokes the brush and plays with cubic shapes. La Defense is a strikingly modern part of Paris, dominated by the gleaming cubic shape of the Arche de la Defense. The food had been made into small rectangular, spherical or cubic portions, in contrast to those consumed by American or Russian astronauts, who sucked food from tube-type containers. Located in a sprawling storefront loft on Sherbrooke just west of St-Denis, the glass-fronted cubic space with ultra-high ceilings has a museum-of-the-future feel to it. The cool rationality of the grid spells order and control - no mysterious darkness or dirty corners - and the geometry of the cubic masses registers timeless perfection. The main corridor then leads past two shops featuring clothing, perfumes, jewelry and souvenirs, and a double row of cubic insets displaying colorful Greek rocks and gems. Even though there was a complete absence of light, somehow Terry knew that he was in a cubic room, and there was no way to get out. This ratio, one of his own devising, has remained virtually constant in all of his cubic openwork structures. Like the others, the cubic room had two small beds, two desks, a row of different robes hanging from hooks, and a band of light-refracting crystal lining the wall. Almost square in plan, the mosque has a flat roof, making it cubic in shape. The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face. They usually were of cubic shape, and were sealed with an airtight lock that ran three-quarters of the way around the middle of the box, leaving one side to hinge on. The work is described as a large cubic structure that can be triggered by a control unit to affect the earth's speed of rotation. Into this cubic void, subsidiary planes of glass are placed so that the immediate lobby reads as a transparent box inside a larger, virtual box. When the offending device had finally been removed, she didn't notice even then; her mind had been made as pure as the cubic room she was contained in. Synonyms quadrilateral, rectangular, oblong, right-angled, at right angles, perpendicular 1.1 Denoting a unit of measurement equal to the volume of a cube whose side is one of the linear unit specified. 15 billion cubic meters of water Example sentencesExamples They sprayed the flow with 6 million cubic meters of water, hoping to cool the lava enough - by about 50 degrees Celsius - so that it would solidify. Let us consider the density of the egg to be 1.3 grams per cubic centimeter. As the earth's crust was forced upwards, it displaced hundreds of cubic metres of water along an area as large as 1000 km long and 100 km wide. For eight months up to eight Russian and international volunteers at a time called their combined 300 cubic metre volume home. This waterfall is over 1,700 meters wide and drops an average of 550,000 cubic meters of water over the edge every minute. One cubic metre of spruce weighs about 450 kilograms. The Adamstown Treatment Plant, at Kilmeaden will be duplicated, thus increasing its output capacity from 32,500 to 53,000 cubic metres of water per day. At 4:35 pm, the flow volume reached 750 cubic metres per second. A 737 freighter can carry about 16 tonnes, and has about 120 cubic metres of volume. Lacking some 2.6 billion cubic metres of water a year, Shaanxi Province is suffering from insufficient rainfall and a low water utilization ratio. The pool takes up a volume of 66 cubic metres and weighs over 80 metric tons. The price of the gas in Shanghai will be 1.32 yuan per cubic metre. Basra's water authority is constructing 12 small purification units that will eventually produce 25 cubic meters of clean water every hour. Other units, such as cubic meters or imperial gallons, can be converted to the U.S. barrel fairly easily. Two thousand Vietnamese rivers carry nearly a trillion cubic meters of water to the sea every year, fed by rains that in some parts of the country total an astonishing 10 feet a year. Bailing of the waste plastic will take place on site and each bail will measure about one cubic metre. The per capita availability of water was 6,008 cubic metres in 1947. Webster's would say that volume is the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional figure as measured in cubic units. The treatment plant currently processes 1.2 million cubic metres of water a day, representing 40 per cent of the total water used in Hong Kong each day. It is estimated that a million cubic meters of water is capable of creating 200 jobs in direct and indirect agriculturally generated occupations. 1.2 Involving the cube (and no higher power) of a quantity or variable. a cubic equation Example sentencesExamples We are told that there are similar formulae for roots of cubic and quartic polynomial equations, but these are more complicated, and so, in school we are not taught these formulas. He solved cubic equations by extending an algorithm for finding cube roots. The first person known to have solved cubic equations algebraically was del Ferro but he told nobody of his achievement. Historically, imaginary numbers first came to light when trying to solve cubic equations, rather than quadratics. Like Mazur, Pesic starts at the beginning with the irrationality of square roots and proceeds to the solution of cubic and quartic equations. Lagrange's main object was to find out why cubic and quartic equations could be solved algebraically. What are the general solutions to cubic and quartic polynomial equations? Khayyam also wrote that he hoped to give a full description of the algebraic solution of cubic equations in a later work. 1.3 Of or denoting a crystal system or three-dimensional geometric arrangement having three equal axes at right angles. Example sentencesExamples Diamond is also a light material whose atoms are covalently bonded and arrayed in a cubic structure, whereas osmium is heavy, metallic, and has hexagonally organized atoms. Sphalerite is cubic with crystals commonly tetrahedral or dodecahedral and frequently complex and distorted. The Lena River in Yakutsk, Russia, is another classic source of cubic crystals. At this temperature the lattice constant of the cubic structure progressively decreases with increasing temperature. Although it exhibits cubic crystal symmetry, its optical behavior is not identical in all orientations. Groups of well-formed octahedrally modified cubic crystals were found, with individuals to 3.5 cm across. During the last four years we made several unsuccessful attempts to locate additional groups of cubic copper crystals. Between 417°C and its melting point of 1493°C, cobalt has a face-centered cubic structure. Based on x-ray diffraction data, the authors concluded that the observed aggregates represented dispersed particles of cubic structure. Another relatively new discovery is pyrite as attractive, sharp, cubic crystals, to 1 cm on edge, altered to goethite. Some of these larger crystals are elongate, giving them a tetragonal rather than cubic appearance. When sufficient alloying element is added, it is possible to preserve the face-centered cubic austenite at room temperature, either in a stable or metastable condition. She noted that many dark purple to nearly black cubic crystals exhibit a stairstep growth pattern. Table salt, for example, has a characteristically cubic crystalline shape that can be observed with the naked eye. Exceptionally sharp groups of skeletal cubic silver crystals have been collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine. Suppose a walker stands at a vertex of a three-dimensional cubic grid. Single brilliant, striated, cubic crystals to 2.5 cm on edge were found in soft greasy masses of pyrophyllite that was easily removed from the specimens. Diamonds, pyrite and garnet are examples of cubic crystals. Some of the gold formed discrete isolated crystals to 2 mm perched on tiny cubic pyrite crystals in vugs that range to 1 cm across. Most of these specimens exhibit crystals that are cubic in habit; however, octahedra of both blue-gray and medium green have also been common. nounˈkyo͞obikˈkjubɪk Mathematics A cubic equation, or a curve described by one. Example sentencesExamples He wrote articles on such diverse topics as twisted cubics, developable surfaces, the theory of conics, the theory of plane curves, third- and fourth-degree surfaces, statics and projective geometry. Cardan noticed something strange when he applied his formula to certain cubics. The yield and tensile strengths of metals that crystallize in the body-centered cubic from iron, molybdenum, vanadium and chromium depend greatly on temperature. After subsequent work failed to solve equations of higher degree, Lagrange undertook an analysis in 1770 to explain why the methods for cubics and quartics are successful. In this classification of cubics, Newton gives four classes of equation. Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘involving the cube (and no higher power)’): from Old French cubique, or via Latin from Greek kubikos, from kobos ‘cube’.
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