Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CUBE

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Definitions of CUBE

1. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
2. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
3. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
4. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
5. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
6. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
7. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
8. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
9. (transitive) To cut into cubes.
10. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.

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Examples of Using CUBE in a Sentence

• In geometry, a cube or regular hexahedron is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six congruent square faces, a type of polyhedron.
• Plato (427–347 BCE) believed the elements were geometric forms (the platonic solids) and he assigned the cube to the element of earth in his dialogue Timaeus.
• The square is two-dimensional (2D) and bounded by one-dimensional line segments; the cube is three-dimensional (3D) and bounded by two-dimensional squares; the tesseract is four-dimensional (4D) and bounded by three-dimensional cubes.
• For instance, the Hausdorff dimension of a single point is zero, of a line segment is 1, of a square is 2, and of a cube is 3.
• In geometry, the regular icosahedron (or simply icosahedron) is a convex polyhedron that can be constructed from pentagonal antiprism by attaching two pentagonal pyramids with regular faces to each of its pentagonal faces, or by putting points onto the cube.
• The rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), cube (six square faces), and the rhombohedron (six rhombus faces) are all special cases of parallelepiped.
• The cube was released internationally in 1980 and became one of the most recognized icons in popular culture.
• If the rational root test finds no rational solutions, then the only way to express the solutions algebraically uses cube roots.
• In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional square and a three-dimensional cube.
• The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Danish polymath Piet Hein in 1933 during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg.
• An n-dimensional hypercube is more commonly referred to as an n-cube or sometimes as an n-dimensional cube.
• In antenna theory, intermediate-field region (also known as intermediate field, intermediate zone or transition zone) refers to the transition region lying between the near-field region and the far-field region in which the field strength of an electromagnetic wave is dependent upon the inverse distance, inverse square of the distance, and the inverse cube of the distance from the antenna.
• The Hilbert cube is obtained by taking a topological product of countably many copies of the unit interval.
• The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker.
• Psilocybe cubensis, commonly known as the magic mushroom, shroom, golden halo, golden teacher, cube, or gold cap, is a species of psilocybin mushroom of moderate potency whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin.
• Resistivity and conductivity are intensive properties of materials, giving the opposition of a standard cube of material to current.
• The Grande Arche is in the approximate shape of a cube with a width, height, and depth of ; it has been suggested that the structure looks like a hypercube (a tesseract) projected onto the three-dimensional world.
• The 2006 Olympic mascots were Neve ("snow" in Italian), a female snowball, and Gliz, a male ice cube.
• The conchoid of Nicomedes, studied by Nicomedes as a method to both double the cube and to trisect an angle.
• As with the related problems of squaring the circle and trisecting the angle, doubling the cube is now known to be impossible to construct by using only a compass and straightedge, but even in ancient times solutions were known that employed other methods.

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