# cube
## English
### Etymology 1

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA: /kjuːb/
* (US) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA: /kjub/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːb

#### Noun

cube (plural cubes)
* (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
* Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
    a sugar cube
    a stock cube
* (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
    the cube of 2 is 8
* (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
* A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube

##### Synonyms

* (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): regular hexahedron (rare)
* (object in the form of a cube): block, brick, die, square block
* (number raised to the third power): third power

##### Hypernyms

* (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid

##### Coordinate terms

* (Platonic solids): tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron

##### Translations

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#### Verb

cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)
* (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
    Three cubed can be written as 3$^3$, and equals twenty-seven.
** 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:From this severe trial Mr. Nackybal emerged with distinction, having in his cubing made only twenty-five slight mistakes out of the forty-six cubes demanded, and in his rooting, out of the fifty-three extractions propounded, committed a mere matter of four trifling errors!
* (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
* (transitive) To cut into cubes.
    Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
* (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
    He likes to cube now and then.

##### Synonyms

* (to cut into cubes): dice

##### Translations
#### Adjective

cube (not comparable)
* (postpositive) Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
** 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 181:Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all.

#### Derived terms

* 4-cube
* angiocube
* bath cube
* bouillon cube
* broth cube
* cubane
* cube candle
* cube farm
* cubefree
* cubeful
* cube juice
* cubeland
* cubeless
* cubelet
* cubelike
* cube map
* cube mapping
* cube master
* cubemate
* cube out
* cube powder
* cuber
* cube root
* cube rule
* cubescape
* cube-shaped
* cubesort
* cube-square law
* cube steak
* cube sugar
* cube truck
* cube van
* cube with handles
* cubey
* cubie
* cubiform
* cubing
* cuboctahedron
* cubo-cube
* cubologist
* cubology
* cubooctahedron
* cubyl
* doubling cube
* duplication of the cube
* flashcube
* hemicube
* high cube
* Hilbert cube
* holocube
* hypercube
* hypocube
* ice cube
* ice cube tray
* magic cube
* magicube
* metacube
* microcube
* nanocube
* Necker cube
* octaazacubane
* octacube
* Oxo cube
* pawn cube
* pentacube
* perfect cube
* photo cube
* polycube
* puzzle cube
* Rubik cube
* Rubik's cube
* scale cube
* Sierpinski cube
* snub cube
* speed cube
* speedcube
* speedcuber
* speedcubing
* square-cube law
* stock cube
* subcube
* sugar cube
* supercube
* tetracube
* tip of the ice cube
* tricube
* truncated cube
* Tychonoff cube

#### Related terms

* cubic
* cubical
* cuboid
* cubism
* cubist

#### See also

* line segment
* square
* tesseract

### Etymology 2

Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).

#### Noun

cube (plural cubes)
* A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
    My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Cebu

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kyb/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cube m (plural cubes)
* cube (all senses)
* third-grader

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: cub
* → Turkish: küp

### Adjective

cube (plural cubes)
* cubic

#### Derived terms

* mètre cube

### Verb

cube
* inflection of cuber:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.be/
* Rhymes: -ube
* Hyphenation: cù‧be

### Adjective

cube f
* feminine plural of cubo

## Latin
### Noun

cube
* vocative singular of cubus

## Portuguese
### Verb

cube
* inflection of cubar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative