About The Word Cube
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Cube
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What's The Definition Of Cube?
[n] a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
[n] any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone [n] the product of three equal terms [n] a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides [n] a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces [v] raise to the third power [v] cut into cubes; "cube the cheese" Synonyms | Synonyms for Cube: block | dice | regular hexahedron | square block | third power Related Terms | Find terms related to Cube: See Also | block | cut | dice | die | genus Lonchocarpus | goldbrick | ice cube | ideal solid | Lonchocarpus | multiply | number | Platonic body | Platonic solid | quadrate | regular convex polyhedron | regular convex solid | regular polyhedron | solid | subshrub | suffrutex Cube In Webster's Dictionary \Cube\ (k?b), n. [F. cube, L. cubus, fr. Gr. ???? a cube, a
cubical die.]
1. (Geom.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
2. (Math.) The product obtained by taking a number or
quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64,
the cube of 4.
{Cube ore} (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes
in cubes of a green color.
{Cube root}. (Math.), the number or quantity which,
multiplied into itself, and then into the product,
produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27,
for 3x3x3 = 27.
{Cube spar} (Min.), anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate.
\Cube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cubed} (k?bd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cubing}.] To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of. |
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