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cubic kilometre — noun a unit of capacity equal to the volume of a cube one kilometer on each edge • Syn: ↑cubic kilometer • Hypernyms: ↑metric capacity unit • Part Meronyms: ↑kiloliter, ↑kilolitre, ↑cubic meter, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
cubic meter — noun a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters • Syn: ↑kiloliter, ↑kilolitre, ↑cubic metre • Hypernyms: ↑metric capacity unit • Part Holonyms: ↑cubic kilometer, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
cubic metre — noun a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters • Syn: ↑kiloliter, ↑kilolitre, ↑cubic meter • Hypernyms: ↑metric capacity unit • Part Holonyms: ↑cubic kilometer, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
metric capacity unit — noun a capacity unit defined in metric terms • Hypernyms: ↑volume unit, ↑capacity unit, ↑capacity measure, ↑cubage unit, ↑cubic measure, ↑cubic content unit, ↑displacement unit, ↑cubature unit, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
kiloliter — noun a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters • Syn: ↑kilolitre, ↑cubic meter, ↑cubic metre • Hypernyms: ↑metric capacity unit • Part Holonyms: ↑cubic kilometer, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Neutrino detector — The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a 12 meter sphere filled with heavy water surrounded by light detectors located 2000 meters below the ground in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. A neutrino detector is a physics apparatus designed to study neutrinos.… … Wikipedia
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milliard — 1. a unit of quantity equal to 109, which is what Americans call a billion. See Using Numbers and Units for more on the billion controversy. 2. a unit of volume used by engineers to describe a large quantity of water. One milliard equals … Dictionary of units of measurement
Project DUMAND — (Deep Underwater Muon And Neutrino Detector) was a proposed underwater neutrino telescope to be built in the Pacific Ocean, off the shore of Hawaii, [Halzen, Francis and Spencer R. Klein, Astronomy and astrophysics with neutrinos. Physics Today… … Wikipedia
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