CUBIC METER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cubic meter mean? 

• CUBIC METER (noun)
  The noun CUBIC METER has 1 sense:

1. a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters

  Familiarity information: CUBIC METER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUBIC METER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

cubic meter; cubic metre; kiloliter; kilolitre

Hypernyms ("cubic meter" is a kind of...):

metric capacity unit (a capacity unit defined in metric terms)

Meronyms (parts of "cubic meter"):

hectoliter; hectolitre; hl (a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters)

Holonyms ("cubic meter" is a part of...):

cubic kilometer; cubic kilometre (a unit of capacity equal to the volume of a cube one kilometer on each edge)

 Context examples 

Closer to the poles, concentrations could go higher, approaching levels typical of sea water on Earth, 0.2 moles per cubic meter (6.4 mg per liter), for calcium perchlorates.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

A metric unit of mass concentration defined as the concentration of one gram of a substance per unit volume of the mixture equal to one cubic meter.

(Microgram per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

Brandon now estimates that the ocean is contaminated by 8.3 million pieces of mini-microplastics per cubic meter of water.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

A dose calculation unit equal to mass concentration of a substance expressed in kilograms per unit volume of the mixture equal to one cubic meter per time period of one minute.

(Milligram per Milliliter per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI derived unit of energy density defined as the energy equal to one joule stored in the volume equal to one cubic meter.

(Joule per Cubic Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI unit of volumetric flow rate defined as the rate at which one cubic meter of matter crosses a given surface during the period of time equal to one second.

(Cubic Meter per Second, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of volumetric electrical charge density designated as the charge equal to one coulomb distributed over the volume equal to one cubic meter.

(Coulomb per Cubic Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of volume equal to one millionth (10E-6) of a cubic meter, one thousandth of a liter, one cubic centimeter, or 0.061023 7 cubic inch.

(Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A traditional unit of volume equal to 1728 cubic inches, or 1/27 cubic yard, or 0.028 316 85 cubic meter (28.316 85 liters).

(Cubic Foot, NCI Thesaurus)

One liter is equal to cubic decimeter, or one thousandth of cubic meter, or 1000 cubic centimeters, or approximately 61.023 744 cubic inches.

(Liter, NCI Thesaurus)