cube
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA(key): /kjuːb/
- (US) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA(key): /kjub/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːb
Noun
editcube (plural cubes)
- (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- a sugar cube
- (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- the cube of 2 is 8
- (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
- A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
Synonyms
edit- (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): regular hexahedron (rare)
- (object in the form of a cube): block, brick, die, square block
- (number raised to the third power): third power
Hypernyms
edit- (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid
Coordinate terms
edit- (Platonic solids): tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron
Translations
editgeometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces
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object more or less in the form of a cube
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arithmetic: number raised to the third power
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Verb
editcube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)
- (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.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- From this severe trial Mr. Nackybal emerged with distinction, having in his cubing made only twenty-five slight mistakes out of the forty-six cubes demanded, and in his rooting, out of the fifty-three extractions propounded, committed a mere matter of four trifling errors!
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
- (transitive) To cut into cubes.
- Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
- (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
- He likes to cube now and then.
Synonyms
edit- (to cut into cubes): dice
Translations
editarithmetic: to raise to the third power
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to form into the shape of a cube
to cut into cubes
Adjective
editcube (not comparable)
- (postpositive) Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
- 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 181:
- Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all.
Derived terms
edit- 4-cube
- angiocube
- bath cube
- bouillon cube
- broth cube
- cubane
- cube candle
- cube farm
- cubefree
- cubeful
- cube juice
- cubeland
- cubelet
- cubelike
- cube map
- cube mapping
- cubemate
- cube out
- cube powder
- cube root
- cube rule
- cubescape
- cube-shaped
- cubesort
- cube-square law
- cube steak
- cube sugar
- cube truck
- cube van
- cube with handles
- cubey
- cubie
- cubiform
- cuboctahedron
- cubo-cube
- cubology
- cubooctahedron
- cubyl
- doubling cube
- duplication of the cube
- flashcube
- hemicube
- high cube
- Hilbert cube
- holocube
- hypercube
- hypocube
- ice cube
- ice cube tray
- magic cube
- magicube
- metacube
- microcube
- nanocube
- Necker cube
- octaazacubane
- octacube
- Oxo cube
- pawn cube
- pentacube
- perfect cube
- photo cube
- polycube
- puzzle cube
- Rubik cube
- Rubik's cube
- scale cube
- Sierpinski cube
- snub cube
- speed cube
- speedcube
- square-cube law
- stock cube
- subcube
- sugar cube
- supercube
- tetracube
- tip of the ice cube
- tricube
- truncated cube
- Tychonoff cube
Related terms
editSee also
editEtymology 2
editClipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).
Noun
editcube (plural cubes)
- A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
- My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
Translations
editAnagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcube m (plural cubes)
- cube (all senses)
- third-grader
Descendants
editAdjective
editcube (plural cubes)
Derived terms
editVerb
editcube
- inflection of cuber:
Further reading
edit- “cube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editcube f
Latin
editNoun
editcube
Portuguese
editVerb
editcube
- inflection of cubar:
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