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The definition of a cube is a three-dimensional square with six equal sides.

(noun)

An example of a cube is a piece of cheese with six square sides.
An example of a cube is a piece of ice.

Cube, short for cubical, is defined as an office work space.

(noun)

An example of a cube is a three-sided space with a desk and short walls.

To cube is to cut something into a three-dimensional square.

(verb)

An example of cube is to cut a vegetable into a square-sided shape.

To cube is defined as to raise a number to the third power.

(verb)

An example of cube is to take the number 3 to the third power; to cube it to 27.

See cube in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a solid with six equal, square sides
anything having more or less this shape: an ice cube
the product obtained by multiplying a given number or quantity by its square; third power: the cube of 3 is 27 (3 × 3 × 3)

Origin: Fr < L cubus < Gr kybos, a cube, die, vertebra < IE base *keu(b)-, to bend, turn > hip, hive, L cubare, to lie down

transitive verb cubed, cubing

to raise to the third power; obtain the cube of (a number or quantity)
to cut or shape into cubes; dice: cube the vegetables
to score (meat) in a crisscross pattern in order to tenderize it
to measure the cubic content of

Related Forms:

cuber noun

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noun

any tropical American plant of a genus (Lonchocarpus) of the pea family, whose roots yield rotenone

Origin: < Sp quibey < native name

See cube in American Heritage Dictionary 4

cube

noun

Mathematics A regular solid having six congruent square faces.
a. Something having the general shape of a cube: a cube of sugar.
b. A cubicle, used for work or study.
Mathematics The third power of a number or quantity.
cubes Slang Cubic inches. Used especially of an internal combustion engine.

transitive verb cubed cubed, cubing cub·ing, cubes

Mathematics To raise (a quantity or number) to the third power.
To determine the cubic contents of.
To form or cut into cubes; dice.
To tenderize (meat) by breaking the fibers with superficial cuts in a pattern of squares.

Origin: Latin cubus, from Greek kubos. N., sense 2b, short for cubicle.

Related Forms:

cuber cubˈer noun

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cube

To calculate the volume of a cube, multiply the length of an edge of the cube by itself twice. The volume of this cube is 125 cubic feet.

cu·bé also cu·be

noun

Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus in the pea family, whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone.

Origin: American Spanish.

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