GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   cube-shaped cubical adj. Shaped like or approximately like a cube.
   Syn. -- cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal.
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   { Cubic , Cubical , } a. [L. cubicus, Gr. : cf. F. cubique. See Cube.]
   Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
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   (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.
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   Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. -- Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. -- Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.
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