cube

cube

¹

1. a solid having six plane square faces in which the angle between two adjacent sides is a right angle

2. the product of three equal factors: the cube of 2 is 2 × 2 × 2 (usually written 2³)

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cube

²

any of various tropical American plants, esp any of the leguminous genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone

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Cube

A solid figure, bounded by six squares, and hence also called a hexahedron.

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cube

[kyüb]

(mathematics)

Regular polyhedron whose faces are all square.

For a number a, the new number obtained by taking the threefold product of a with itself: a × a × a.

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Cube

(1)

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.

cube

(2)

[short for "cubicle"] A module in the open-plan offices used at many programming shops. "I've got the manuals in my cube."

cube

(3)

A NeXT machine (which resembles a matte-black cube).

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cube

(1) See OLAP cube and OLAP.

(2) Apple's earlier Cube computer. See G4.

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Cube

 

(1) One of five types of regular polyhedrons, having six square faces, 12 edges, and eight vertices; three mutually perpendicular edges meet at each vertex. A cube is sometimes called a hexahedron.

(2) The cube of the number a is the third power of the number, that is, the product a • a • a = a³. It is so named because it expresses the volume of a cube whose edge is equal to a.

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