Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Cubic content, volume, or displacement.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of determining the cubic contents of something; cubature.
  • noun The cubic contents measured.

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  • noun A cubic measurement.

Etymologies

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Borrowing from French cubage

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Examples

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  • “Do you think we should put up the available cubage on our site?”

    Command Decision Moon, Elizabeth 2007

  • Initially, many Galactics had objected to the Ten Thousand Acres as an appalling waste of cubage.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • Earth was a new and different place to live, but with Terran life expectancies approaching the Galactic norm and the immigration boom at an end, residential cubage was hard to find.

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  • With the land rush fading into history, the Ten Thousand Acres had proven a useful way of opening up a steady trickle of cubage.

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  • Electric power for grow lights wasn't free, but it was far less expensive than paying for the balcony shaft's wasted cubage.

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  • More than half the cubage is taken up by packaging and protections.

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  • If you consider the alternatives in order theory, the number of bodies required to lift that cubage, it works out about even.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • Money is nothing; weight and cubage are all that count-our total wealth is what mules can take through that notch. \par

    Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

  • Her pay load was higher than necessary for the job, since passengers weigh little for the cubage they clutter-but that would make her lively, which might be critically important.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

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