cubation

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Latin cubatio, from cubare (to lie down).

Noun

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cubation

  1. (obsolete) The act of lying down; a reclining.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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cubation

  1. (mathematics) The act of finding the volume or cubic content of a body; the result thus found.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cubation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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