cube
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cube (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
- a stock 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
- (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
- German: Würfel
- Italian: cubo, dado, cuboide
- Portuguese: cubo
- Russian: куб
- Spanish: cubo, terrón sugar cube, cubito sugar or ice cube
cube (cubes, present participle cubing; 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.
- (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.
- (UK) to use a Rubik's cube.
- He likes to cube now and then.
- (to cut into cubes) dice
- Italian: elevare al cubo, (potenza) elevare alla terza
- Portuguese: cubar, elevar ao cubo, elevar à terceira potência, cubar
- Russian: возводи́ть в куб
- Portuguese: dar forma de cubo a
- German: würfeln
- Italian: cubettare
cube (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.
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