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NOUN (5)

1. a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces;
[syn: cube, regular hexahedron]

2. a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides;
[syn: block, cube]

3. the product of three equal terms;
[syn: cube, third power]

4. 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;

5. a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube;
[syn: cube, square block]


VERB (2)

1. raise to the third power;

2. cut into cubes;
- Example: "cube the cheese"
[syn: cube, dice]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cube \Cube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cubed (k[=u]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cubing.] To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cube \Cube\ (k[=u]b), n. [F. cube, L. cubus, fr. Gr. ???? a cube, a cubical die.] 1. (Geom.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides. [1913 Webster] 2. (Math.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4. [1913 Webster] Cube ore (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color. Cube root. (Math.), the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27, for 3x3x3 = 27. Cube spar (Min.), anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cube n 1: a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces [syn: cube, regular hexahedron] 2: a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides [syn: block, cube] 3: the product of three equal terms [syn: cube, third power] 4: 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 5: a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube [syn: cube, square block] v 1: raise to the third power 2: cut into cubes; "cube the cheese" [syn: cube, dice]
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

cube n. 1. [short for ?cubicle?] A module in the open-plan offices used at many programming shops. ?I've got the manuals in my cube.? 2. A NeXT machine (which resembles a matte-black cube).
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Cube Three-dimensional visual language for higher-order logic. "The Cube Language", M. Najork et al, 1991 IEEE Workshop on Visual Langs, Oct 1991, pp.218-224. [Jargon File]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

cube 1. [short for "cubicle"] A module in the open-plan offices used at many programming shops. "I've got the manuals in my cube." 2. A NeXT machine (which resembles a matte-black cube).