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- having the shape of a cube立方形的; 立方体的：
a cubic room
立方形的房间。
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- attrib. denoting a unit of measurement equal to the volume of a cube whose side is one of the linear unit specified（度量单位）立方的：
15 billion cubic metres of water
150亿立方米的水。
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- measured or expressed in such units以立方计量的; 以立方表示的。
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- involving the cube (and no higher power) of a quantity or variable（量或变量的）三次的：
a cubic equation
三次方程。
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- of or denoting a crystal system or three-dimensional geometrical arrangement having three equal axes at right angles（晶系或三维几何排列）立方的, 等轴的。
- Mathematics a cubic equation, or a curve described by one【数】三次方程; 三次曲线。
派生词
cubical
adjectivecubically
adverb词源
late 15th cent. （in the sense 'involving the cube (and no higher power)'）： from Old French cubique, or via Latin from Greek kubikos, from kobos 'cube'.