cubation

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cubation

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

Related terms

• humicubation

Etymology 2

Noun

cubation

1. (mathematics) The act of finding the volume or cubic content of a body; the result thus found.

Synonyms

• cubage
• cubature

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• acutobin, butanoic