cube has definitions from the fields of botany,mathematics,geometry
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[ noun ] (mathematics,geometry) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

Used in print

(R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)

This theorem is similar to the theorem of Kakutani that there exists a circumscribing cube around any closed , bounded convex set in **f .

The latter theorem has been generalized by Yamabe and Yujobo , and Cairns to show that in **f there are families of such cubes .

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[ noun ] a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

Synonyms

block

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

A borderline schizophrenic young man told me that to him the various theoretical concepts about which he had been expounding , in a most articulate fashion , during session after session with me , were like great cubes of almost tangibly solid matter up in the air above him ; as he spoke I was reminded of the great bales of cargo which are swung , high in the air , from a docked steamship .

Related terms

solid goldbrick

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[ verb ] (mathematics) raise to the third power

Used in print

(J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)

Therefore , n is inversely proportional to the radius cubed and in fair agreement with the inverse 7 2 power derived from 1958_Alpha and 1959_Eta data .

Related terms

multiply arithmetic

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[ noun ] (botany) 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

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subshrub Lonchocarpus

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[ noun ] (mathematics) the product of three equal terms

Synonyms

third_power

Related terms

number

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[ verb ] cut into cubes

Synonyms

dice

Examples

"cube the cheese"

Related terms

cut dice block

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[ noun ] a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

Synonyms

square_block

Related terms

block dice ice_cube

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