cubic meter
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- noun
- /ˈkjuːbɪk ˈmiːtər/
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metro cúbico
- A typical shipping container has a volume of about 30 cubic meters.
- million cubic meters
- billion cubic meters
- cubic meters of water
We can again take the example of the one cubic meter of gas at standard temperature and pressure.
- We can again take the example of the one cubic meter of gas at standard temperature and pressure.
- That means we're in a fluid or a gas which is around us that has a particular number of atoms per cubic meter, right?
- OK, the best laboratory vacuum changers can pump down to as few as ten billion atoms per cubic meter.
Examples
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- 88 billion cubic meters.
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In all, some 8 million cubic meters of wood are left rotting in the forest annually.
Academic text (1999) -
We can again take the example of the one cubic meter of gas at standard temperature and pressure.
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- Let them do 10 cubic meters.
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Let them do 20 cubic meters.
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It's going to have units of cubic meters per second, which is a discharge for a river.
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But do you know how many cubic meters I'd need?
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I'm talking over five million cubic meters of timber in the first year alone.
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Each second, millions of cubic meters of water circulate between the ocean's surface and its depths.
Academic text (1994) -
As of 2005, irrigators had traded some 185.1 million cubic meters of water per year to urban users.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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A unit of volume equal to 1,000 liters or about 264 gallons
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'cubic' (relating to a cube with three equal dimensions) and 'meter' (a unit of length): it denotes the volume of a cube with sides of one meter. This compositional, measurement-building pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English modifier+noun formation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the term.
Etymology
The noun cubic meter comes from a simple picture: cubic means 'cube-shaped' and meter means 'one meter', so a cubic meter is the space inside a cube with 'one meter' sides. That's why it is the unit used to measure large amounts of space or liquid.