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Example sentences for "cubical"

Lexicographically close words:
cubed; cubes; cubhood; cubi; cubic; cubicle; cubicles; cubiculum; cubierta; cubierto
  1. A process of delamination now takes place, which leads to the formation of a superficial layer of cubical or pyramidal cells, enclosing a central solid mass of more or less irregularly arranged cells.

  2. Their walls are composed of cubical cells derived from the yolk cells, the origin of which was spoken of on p.

  3. These columns become broken up successively from before backwards into somewhat cubical bodies, in the centre of which a cavity soon appears.

  4. At the same time they frequently become cubical or even columnar, and filled with numerous vacuoles.

  5. Cubical masses of it are found, at some of the diggings, which are studded over with minute crystals of calcareous spar.

  6. The ore used is the common sulphuret, with a foliated, glittering and cubical fracture.

  7. The tendency of their crystallization is to restore octahedral and cubical forms.

  8. The ore is a broad-grained cubical galena, easily reduced, and bids fair very greatly to enhance the value and resources of this section of the West.

  9. This is generally of a cubical form, large enough to hold the wooden box, which contains the powder necessary for the charge.

  10. Small cubical or other shaped pieces are cut out, sprinkled with meal powder, and dried in the shade.

  11. The cubical marrons are formed in the following manner: Divide a piece of strong pasteboard in such a manner, as that each division will form one of the sides of the cube, as represented in the following figure.

  12. When cubical gambir or catechu, in powder, is treated with cold water, a portion remains undissolved.

  13. It generally occurs in cubical reddish-brown pieces, porous, bitter, and astringent in taste.

  14. Entire cubical capacity of ship, including every inclosed space and all room under deck from stem to stern-post, if closed in and usable.

  15. Entire capacity or cubical contents of a vessel.

  16. The vegetable prototype was deserted, and a female head, or rather a fourfold mask about a cubical kernel, crowned the shaft, being surmounted by an ornament somewhat resembling a chapel.

  17. All that has been here stated with respect to a square or a cubical vessel will be equally applicable to a vessel of any other form.

  18. In fact, let us imagine that the square or cubical vessel represented in fig.

  19. Let us take for illustration the case of a square or a cubical vessel, A B C D, fig.

  20. When it is combined with the latter, it forms a neutral salt which shoots into cubical crystals.

  21. These pyramidal crystals are only collections of small cubical crystals concreted into this form.

  22. The genus Lithocubus is very remarkable for the regular cubical form of the skeleton, which is composed of twelve siliceous rods, corresponding to the twelve edges of a cube.

  23. The twelve rods of the cubical shell are curved and armed with scattered, simple, short spines.

  24. The twelve rods of the cubical shell are slightly curved, convex, smooth, as in the similar preceding species.

  25. The twelve rods of the cubical shell are stout and slightly curved, armed with numerous, simple, and irregularly branched spines.

  26. The floor space and cubical content of the round barn 60 feet in diameter, and the rectangular barn compared with it in these tables, are practically the same, and the barns are therefore directly comparable.

  27. The accompanying tables show the comparative amount and value of lumber and cubical content in round barns 60 and 90 feet in diameter, and rectangular barns of equal area and height of posts.

  28. I doubt whether the castle contains anything that would be called a bastion by a military engineer; but I cannot think of any other word to describe the cubical masses of masonry that are joined to the main work only on one side.

  29. The solid or cubical expansions of these bodies are three times the above quantities respectively.

  30. There is generally a tendency in coals towards cleaving into cubical or prismatic blocks, but sometimes the cohesion between the particles is so feeble that the mass breaks up into dust when struck.

  31. The lateral pressure on one side, in a cubical vessel, is, I suppose, not so great as the pressure downwards upon the bottom.

  32. What will be the difference between the pressure upon the bottom, and upon one side of a cubical vessel?

  33. The purer coals certainly consist principally of cubical tissues with some true woody matter, and the spore-cases, &c.

  34. Most of the erect and prostrate trees had become hollow shells of bark before they were finally embedded, and their wood had broken into cubical pieces of mineral charcoal.

  35. It refuses to make any grant to a school in which the cubical contents of the school-room are inadequate to allow of proper respiration.

  36. The lumps of coal in a coal-scuttle very often have a roughly cubical form.

  37. The preceding drawing represents to the eye the forms obtained with cubical and pyramidal nets.

  38. If we make, for example, of very fine wire a cubical net whose sides measure about one-eighth of an inch in length, we need simply to dip this net in water to obtain a small solid cube of water.

  39. The bituminous coals have the usual cubical fracture.

  40. The coal generally is of good quality: bituminous, with cubical fracture; but its value is greatly diminished by numerous slate partings, and some of the seams are too thin for profitable mining.

  41. If we should use mercury, we would construct a cubical vessel to contain it, and use it as we propose to use the lead block.

  42. According to Plucker, the coefficient of cubical dilatation at moderately low temperatures is 0.

  43. But the boat contained several furry jackets, which the men had left in it, and in the bottom, near the stern, a cubical metal box which lighted up like an electric radiator.

  44. It was a cubical box, with a pyramid-shaped top, some thirty feet square at the base, and evidently constructed of metal, a gleaming white nearer like silver than anything else Alan could think of.

  45. The light itself came from a cubical metallic box, perhaps six feet square, suspended above the platform in a balancing mechanism that allowed it to swing in all directions.

  46. The epithelium of the mesenteron is formed out of the hypoblast, whose cells assume a cubical form and gradually absorb the yolk.

  47. If there is a swimming pool, its capacity should be figured by cubical content multiplied by seven and one-half (the number of gallons to the cubic foot) and allowance made for from fifteen to twenty-five per cent fresh water daily.

  48. The expense will about equal that of building a new house of the same cubical content and architectural detail.

  49. From these calculations, it is an easy matter to take the outside dimensions of a house you are considering remodeling and compute its cubical content.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.