cubic foot
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈkjuːbɪk fʊt/
- US
:
pie cúbico
- Each plastic bin is 37 cubic feet, insulated, and has gasketed lids and an aeration floor.
- trillion cubic feet
- thousand cubic feet
- million cubic feet
Examples
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Working capacities from 1 to 300 cubic feet are available.
Academic text (1998) -
When complete, the Crystal Palace enclosed a total of 33 million cubic feet of space.
Academic text (2008) -
It's changing at a rate of a million cubic feet an hour.
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Maximum flood rates reached 1.6 million cubic feet per second.
Academic text (2002) -
In May 2007, they announced the discovery of an estimated 10 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Academic text (2008) -
You're talking about 62 pounds per cubic foot.
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The Yadana field is believed to contain 5.7 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Academic text (2001) -
The dam contains nearly 90 million cubic feet of concrete that weighs about 5.5 million tons.
Academic text (2001) -
The worksite boasts more than 46,000 cubic feet of temperature-controlled storage units.
Academic text (2003) -
The storage unit can hold up to 150 cubic feet of boxes and furniture.
Synonyms
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3.2
A measure of space the size of a cube one foot on each side
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'cubic' (a three-dimensional cube) + 'foot' (the unit of length), indicating the volume of a cube with one-foot sides. This is a standard measurement term found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cubic foot comes from a simple picture: a cube that is exactly one foot long on every side. That little cube shows how much space something takes, so a cubic foot means 'a unit of volume' used to measure how much room liquids, gas, or goods take.