cube
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Is cube a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.Examples: "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."Synonyms: regular hexahedron
2. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.Examples: "The cube of 2 is 8."; "The cube of 0.5 is 0.125."Synonyms: third powerAntonyms: cube root
3. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
4. (informal, automotive) Clipping of cubic inch(es).Examples: "As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400 cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds."abbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal
verb (English)
1. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.Examples: "Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven."; "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!"transitive
2. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.transitive
3. (transitive) To cut into cubes.Examples: "Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice."transitive
4. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.Examples: "He likes to cube now and then."intransitive
adj (English)
1. (postpositive) Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.Examples: "Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all."not-comparablepostpositional
Definition source: Wiktionary