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Cube

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Definitions

1
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.
Similar
regular hexahedron
2
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
Similar
block brick die
3
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

1
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.
2
To form into the shape of a cube.
3

Word Origin

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

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1
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.
Similar
regular hexahedron
2
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
Similar
block brick die
3
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

1
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.
2
To form into the shape of a cube.
3

Word Origin

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

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To cut into cubes.

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