Cubical Sentence Examples

Obelisks were usually raised on pedestals of cubical form resting on one or two steps, and were set up in pairs in front of the entrance of temples.

Its principal product is " papelon," or brown sugar, which is put on the market in the shape of small cylindrical and cubical masses of 14 to 31 lb weight.

The cathedral was built between 973 and loos; the gallery round the back of the apse and the crypt have plain cubical capitals of this period.

The earth is sold by apothecaries in stamped cubical blocks.

Lead monoxide is dimorphous, occurring as cubical dodecahedra and as rhombic octahedra.

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.

As for the second, the elements of savage voracity and wastefulness, of uncertainty as to cubical contents on uneven surface, and of the number of mouths to fill, make it hazardous to construct a chronological table on a shell-heap. Hudson's village sites in Patagonia contain pottery, and that brings them all into the territory of Indian archaeology.

This may be introduced very early; square tablets being used for the mensuration of areas, and cubical blocks for the mensuration of volumes.

Again, there are many theories of the equivalence of different cubic cubits of water with various multiples of talents (2, 3, 18, 24, 33); but connexion by lesser units would be far more probable, as the primary use of weights is not to weigh large cubical vessels of liquid, but rather small portions of precious metals.

An important character, and one by which the mineral may always be recognized, is the perfect cubical cleavage, on which the lustre is brilliant and metallic. The colour of the mineral and of its streak is lead-grey; it is opaque; the hardness is 2 2 and the specific gravity 7.5.

The business was continued by his sons Georg (1804-1884) it as layer of cubical cells, which are continuous near the anterior border with the cells of the peritoneum.

It crystallizes in the cubical system, often in beautiful octahedra and rhombic dodecahedra.

The two carried out some of the earliest thermochemical investigations, devised apparatus for measuring linear and cubical expansions, and employed a modification of Joseph Black's ice calorimeter in a series of determinations of specific heats.

Another from the same place was a small cubical block of limestone bearing a dedication to Heracles.

The two legs of a parabolic branch may converge to ultimate parallelism, as in the conic parabola, or diverge to ultimate parallelism, as in the semi-cubical parabola y 2 = x 3, and the branch is said to be convergent, or divergent, accordingly; or they may tend to parallelism in opposite senses, as in the cubical parabola y = x 3 .

According to Plucker, the coefficient of cubical dilatation at moderately low temperatures is 0.0001585.

I tiled the shower cubical in the same way, with cork adhesive, from B&Q.

In 1657 he became the first to find the arc length of an algebraic curve when he rectified the cubical parabola.

The curve showing the circumferential (or longitudinal) changes was also plotted, and from the two curves thus obtained it was easy, on the assumption that the metal was isotropic in directions at right angles to the magnetization, to calculate changes of volume; for if circumferential elongation be denoted by 1 1, and transverse elongation by 1 2, then the cubical dilatation (40r -) = l l 2/ 2 approximately.

The aptly-named GameCube is small and cubical and is the first Nintendo console to use disc media as opposed to cartridges.

The majority of cubical desk arrangements are with your back to the doorway or opening.

This tiny cubical MP3 player boasts a ton of features found in its more expensive brothers but at a fraction of the price - between $60 and $100!

I, Ben Gustefson, collated boring statistical figures while locked in a cramped cubical of a company that offered me no future potential.