cube

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Noun

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.
2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
   • A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
3. The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
   • The cube of 2 is 8.
   • The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
4. 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.
6. Clipping of cubic inch(es).
   • 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.
7. An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, more so than even a square.

Verb

1. To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
   • Three cubed can be written as 3, and equals twenty-seven.
2. To form into the shape of a cube.
3. To cut into cubes.
   • Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
4. To use a Rubik's cube.
   • He likes to cube now and then.

Adjective

1. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.

Noun

1. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
   • My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

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