Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the degree whose exponent is now used only in the expression semicubical parabola—that is, a parabola whose equation is . See parabola.
Wiktionary
- adj. mathematics Of or relating to the square root of the cube of a quantity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Math.) Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity.
Etymologies
- semi- + cubical (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At the age of 19, in 1657, he gave the first rectification of the semicubical parabola.”
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Adjectival Arcana
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