Cube

/kjuːb/ · noun

Meaning

(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces..

Definitions by Sense

1. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
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. (informal, automotive) Clipping of cubic inch(es).
7. (1950s slang, dated) An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, moreso than even a square.
8. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

Example Sentences

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.

A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.

The cube of 2 is 8.

The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.

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.

Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.

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!

Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.

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• cubes
• cubing
• cubed

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