Dictionary entry

Cubic

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Cu″bic (k?″b?k), Cu″bic‐al (–b?–kal), } a. [L. cubicus, Gr. �����: cf. F. cubique. See Cube.] 1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

2. (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.

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.