CUBIC CENTIMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cubic centimeter mean? 

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

1. a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUBIC CENTIMETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

cc; cubic centimeter; cubic centimetre; mil; milliliter; millilitre; ml

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "cubic centimeter"):

cubic millimeter; cubic millimetre (a metric measure of volume or capacity equal to a cube 1 millimeter on each edge)

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

centiliter; centilitre; cl (a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

The researchers calculated that the density of the halo gas must be less than 0.1 atoms per cubic centimeter (equivalent to several hundred atoms in a volume the size of a child’s balloon).

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

The unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter or 10 milliliters or 10 cubic centimeters or 0.6102 cubic inch.

(Centiliter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Also called cubic centimeter, milliliter, and ml.

(Cc, NCI Dictionary)

The team found extremely slow rates of respiration and approximately 1,000 cells per cubic centimeter of subseafloor sediment in the South Pacific gyre—rates and quantities that had been nearly undetectable.

(No limit to life in deep sediment of ocean's "deadest" region, NSF)

A unit of mass concentration defined as the concentration of one milligram of a substance in unit volume of the mixture equal to one cubic deciliter or 100 cubic centimeters.

(Milligram per Deciliter, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called cc, cubic centimeter, and milliliter.

(Ml, NCI Dictionary)

Also called cc, cubic centimeter, and ml.

(Milliliter, NCI Dictionary)

One L is equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (cc), 1,000 milliliters (mm), or 1.0567 quarts (qt).

(L, NCI Dictionary)