from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Mathematics A regular solid having six congruent square faces.
- n. Something having the general shape of a cube: a cube of sugar.
- n. A cubicle, used for work or study.
- n. Mathematics The third power of a number or quantity.
- n. Slang Cubic inches. Used especially of an internal combustion engine.
- transitive v. Mathematics To raise (a quantity or number) to the third power.
- transitive v. To determine the cubic contents of.
- transitive v. To form or cut into cubes; dice.
- transitive v. To tenderize (meat) by breaking the fibers with superficial cuts in a pattern of squares.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- n. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- n. The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- n. A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
- v. To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
- v. To form into the shape of a cube.
- v. To cut into cubes.
- v. to use a Rubik's cube.
- n. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
- n. The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor.
- transitive v. To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To raise to the cube or third power. See cube, n., 2.
- To measure the cubic capacity of a hollow object, like that of a skull.
- n. In geometry, a regular body with six square faces; a rectangular parallelopiped, having all its edges equal.
- n. In arithmetic and algebra, the product obtained by multiplying the square of a quantity by the quantity itself; the third power of a quantity: as, 4 × 4 × 4 = 64, the cube of 4; a is the cube of a, or x of x.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- n. a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
- n. the product of three equal terms
- v. cut into cubes
- v. raise to the third power
- 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. a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
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