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Definition of Cubic kilometre

1. Noun. A unit of capacity equal to the volume of a cube one kilometer on each edge.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cubic Kilometre

Literary usage of Cubic kilometre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"The lowest daily amount was on March 19th, 1887, when only 0'1373 cubic kilometre flowed during the twenty-four hours (56110 cubic feet per second); ..."

2. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"... part of a cubic kilometre, or the 727th part of a cubic mile, even assuming that the particles are spherical. Since, however, in large measure, ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1828)
"I found the volume of the matters of each eruption much inferior to that of a cubic kilometre *. From these data, and others of a similar kind, ..."

4. Radioactive Transformations by , Ernest Rutherford (1906)
"Suppose the emanation is uniformly distributed in a spherical layer 10 kilometres deep around the earth, and that the emanation per cubic kilometre is ..."

5. The Earth: Its Physical Condition and Most Remarkable Phenomena by William Mullinger Higgins (1838)
"From these data, and others of the same kind, which I have obtained at other places, I feel justified in taking the volume of a cubic kilometre as the ..."

6. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"and for the mass, in grammes, of a cubic kilometre we have Molecular. 20-64 ««. § 7. It is quite impossible to fix a definite limit to the ratio which v may ..."

7. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1828)
"I found the volume of the matters of each eruption much inferior to that of a cubic kilometre *. From these data, and others of a similar kind, ..."

8. The Family Library (Harper). by Child Study Association of America Book Review Committee (1836)
"From these data, and others of the same kind, which I have obtained at other places, I feel justified m taking the volume of a cubic kilometre as the ..."

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