From , from , from .

• (RP) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA: /kjuːb/
• (America) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA: /kjub/

cube (plural cubes)

1. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

   a sugar cube

   a stock cube

3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

   the cube of 2 is 8

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

• (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

• French: cube
• German: Kubus, Würfel
• Italian: cubo
• Portuguese: cubo
• Russian: куб
• Spanish: cubo

• German: Würfel
• Italian: cubo, dado, cuboide
• Portuguese: cubo
• Russian: куб
• Spanish: cubo, terrón sugar cube, cubito sugar or ice cube, pastilla bouillon / stock cube

• French: cube
• Italian: cubo
• Portuguese: cubo
• Russian: куб
• Spanish: cubo

cube (cubes, present participle cubing; simple past and past participle cubed)

1. (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!

2. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
3. (transitive) To cut into cubes.

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

4. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.

   He likes to cube now and then.

• (to cut into cubes) dice

• French: élever à la troisième puissance
• Italian: elevare al cubo, (potenza) elevare alla terza
• Portuguese: cubar, elevar ao cubo, elevar à terceira potência, cubar
• Russian: возводить в куб
• Spanish: elevar al cub, elevar a la tercera potencia

• Portuguese: dar forma de cubo a

• German: würfeln
• Italian: cubettare

• cubic
• cubical
• cuboid
• cubism
• cubist

Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from , from cubare ("to lie down").

cube (plural cubes)

1. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

   My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.