noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cubic centimetre/metre/inch etc
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75,000 million cubic metres of gas
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cubic
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If they were packed tightly there could be 5 thousand million of them in a cubic centimetre of inflammation.
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How many hydra per cubic centimetre teem in that pond?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Almost immediately her thumbnail found another groove opposite; she pulled, and the star came out about a centimetre .
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But have only one centimetre of bare flesh in contact - and the building would absorb you.
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It used to take centuries to build up a centimetre or two of topsoil.
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Matt black with tiny fawn flecks, they are just under a centimetre long.
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These have only one centimetre of padding and leave the thumb free to fold in safely.
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To decrease the depth of a V neckline, deduct 1 from this figure for each 0.5 centimetre required.
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X-rays and gamma rays are the shortest electromagnetic waves, with wavelengths less than a 1000 millionths of a centimetre .