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
Synonyms 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 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
Synonyms 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 . |
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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 |
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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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[ noun ] a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
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