cubic
8
3.8
- adjective
- /ˈkjuːbɪk/
:
cúbico
- Datasheets will be used to record the cubic yardage of waste and recyclables collected from each individual lot within construction sites.
- cubic yards
- cubic feet
- cubic meters
And in a build like this, every cubic millimeter matters.
- And in a build like this, every cubic millimeter matters.
- You just plug in how many inches or feet your beds are and how deep they are, and it just figures out how many cubic yards of soil you need.
Examples
-
The volume in cubic kilometers is a number with thirty-five zeroes, too many for me to be comfortable with.
Fiction book (1999) -
The unit to measure the purchase amount of concrete is cubic meter or cubic yard.
Blog text (34) -
But do you know how many cubic meters I'd need?
-
And in a build like this, every cubic millimeter matters.
-
How many cubic centimeters is it?
-
They come into cubic foot bags too, but they're a lot harder to carry.
-
At a time when unreliable computers filled entire rooms, the AGC needed to operate without any errors and fit in one cubic foot of space.
-
In the simplest of these accounts, physical quantities such as barrels of oil or cubic meters of timber are the units of measurement.
Academic text (1996) -
When Krakatoa exploded, it's thought that around a cubic kilometre of water was turned into steam.
-
The box has a cubic shape, making it easy to stack with other boxes.
Synonyms
1
4.3
Shaped like a cube
1
3.2
A shape like a box with six equal square sides and right angles
Shaped like a cube
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
4
2.6
A measure of space equal to a cube one yard on each side, used for soil or gravel
1
2.9
The volume of a cube with each side one millimeter long equal to one millionth of a liter
- Specialized
An extremely hard man-made material, second only to diamond, used to make cutting and grinding tools
A unit used to measure how much space something has, like a cubic metre or cubic centimetre
How Boxy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cubic comes from the Latin word cubus and the Greek kubos, which mean 'cube'. A 'cube' is a solid with equal length, width and height, like a sugar cube, so cubic means having the shape or space of a cube.