👉 In physics, a "cubature" is a mathematical operation used to approximate the area under a curve by finding the integral of that curve. It's often applied in numerical analysis and optimization problems where the function being integrated needs to be evaluated at a finite number of points. The term "cubatures" can also refer to the process of performing cubature on data, which is a statistical method used for estimating the area under a distribution by calculating its integral over a set of values.
