cube
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noun- 1.
(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
When the math teacher is teaching the class about cubes, he asks them to imagine a cardboard box whose width, length, and height are all the same.
- 2.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
- 3.
(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
The cube of 2 is 8.
The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
- 4.
(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
- 5.
A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
- 6.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, informal)(informal, automotive) Clipping of cubic inch(es).
As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400 cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds.
- 7.
(dated)(1950s slang, dated) An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, moreso than even a square.
- 8.
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)(transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
- 2.
(transitive)To form into the shape of a cube.
- 3.
(transitive)To cut into cubes.
Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
- 4.
(intransitive)To use a Rubik's cube.
He likes to cube now and then.
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adjective- 1.
(not comparable, postpositional)(postpositive) Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
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From fro cube, from la cubus, from grc κύβος.