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Examples from literature

Between November and March, about 13,000 cubic meters of water per second fall into the river below. 
You can hear it long before you see it – 935 cubic meters of water fall every second! 
At the rate of ten cubic yards a-year, the stream has taken several hundred thousand years to make the glen. 
It is asserted that millions of cubic miles of some comets tails would not make a cubic inch of matter solid as iron. 
The explosion produced an excavation measuring fully a cubic yard. 
The quantity of aqueous vapor that a cubic foot of air can hold in suspension, when it is saturated, varies very much with the temperature. 
The quantity of mud discharged, one hundred and seventy cubic feet per second. 

cubic | American Dictionary

cubic
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈkju·bɪk/
mathematics
used in units of volume to show when the length of something has been multiplied by its width and height:
A cubic centimeter is a centimeter high, a centimeter long, and a centimeter wide.

cubic | Business English

cubic
adjective
uk /ˈkjuːbɪk/us(abbreviationcu.)
MEASURES
used in units of volume to show when the length of something has been multiplied by its width and height:
7 million cubic litres of water can be stored in the reservoir.

Examples of cubic

cubic
Quadratic and cubic terms were included to test for the presence of turning points in the relationship.
Because they use a numerical algorithm to optimize the cubic polynomial joint interpolator, it is not a real-time algorithm.
An example of a locally weighted regression smoother is a cubic smoothing spline.
In fact, we are easily able to reject a fourth-order polynomial against the cubic (likelihood ratio test 2 3.712).
A significant linear trend was found, whereas quadratic and cubic trends, which would have indicated slowed or arrested development, were not significant.
Second, the rectal volume expressed in cubic centimetres was recorded.
They believe that the set of cubic spirals has several advantages when used in smoothpath planning, one of which is curvature continuity.
The trajectories of the body and its feet are modeled by piecewise cubic polynomials.
By we denote the cubic multigraph consisting of two vertices and three parallel edges joining them.
Annual timber harvest volumes (in cubic metres), procurement prices and market prices (in yuans per cubic metre) were collected from local timber companies.
Diatribes about crystal nomenclature obscure the fundamental mineralogical problem of producing elongate, nm-scale, defect-free particles of a mineral with cubic symmetry.
Another question concerns the choice of time function (linear, cubic or exponential).
The marginal price is the charge made for the last cubic meter of water used.
Consequently, the overall linear and cubic trends can be considered quite robust being as true of individual raters as of the group.
For irregular surfaces motion planning should be carried out, using three-dimensional cubic splines.
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