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cube

About 3.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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. noun Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
    A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
  3. noun The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
    The cube of 2 is 8.
  4. noun A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
  5. noun A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
  6. noun 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. noun An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, more so than even a square.
  8. verb To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
    Three cubed can be written as 3, and equals twenty-seven.

Similar words

block dice regular hexahedron square block third power cubic metre piece boss bloc

Often followed by

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Word family

cubed cuber cubers cubes cubing cubé

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