cubic
adjective
mathematics
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/ˈkjuː.bɪk/ uk
/ˈkjuː.bɪk/Meaning of cubic in English
- 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.
cubic | Intermediate English
mathematics
A cubic centimeter is a centimeter high, a centimeter long, and a centimeter wide.
cubic | Business English
cubic
adjective
uk
/ˈkjuːbɪk/ us
( abbreviation cu.) MEASURES
Examples of cubic
cubic
It is initially expected send a maximum of 50,000 cubic feet per second of water through a structure on the river's west bank.
From NOLA.com
The project also includes placement of a sand cover over 120,000 cubic yards of sediment with lower levels of contamination.
From MLive.com
By the mid 1970s 1.2 billion cubic meters of the gas was stored there.
From Phys.Org
So let's use 2380 cubic feet per second as the number.
From MLive.com
There are 7.48 gallons of water in a cubic foot.
From MLive.com
And the ocean's evaporate a cubic kilometer of fresh water every 72 seconds, 1,200 cubic kilometers of fresh water a day.
From Fast Company
The largest had a capacity of up to 300 cubic meters of water.
From ABC News
To qualify, the unit must be between 10 and 30 cubic feet and in working condition.
From OregonLive.com
Still, 5.8 cubic feet is nothing to scoff at, and most cooks should find it provides plenty of space.
From CNET
Five wells are located in the vicinity of the airport, each capable of producing 200 cubic meters per hour from electric-powered pumps.
Its resources of freshwater, around 2,000 cubic meters per capita, are one-third of the global average.
From The Atlantic
Opening the dam will release 312,000 cubic yards of sediment downstream, which will have temporary negative effects on the river.
From Baltimore Sun
It's still mostly linear -- but the people density is a bit higher at 0.007 people per cubic meter.
From Wired
That's allowed them to create a device that measures just 0.06 cubic inches.
From Gizmodo
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