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cube

cube


cu·bé also cu·be    Audio Help   (kyōō'bā', kyōō-bā')   
n.   Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus in the pea family, whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone.

[American Spanish.]
cube    Audio Help   (kyōōb)   

n.  

  1. Mathematics A regular solid having six congruent square faces.

    1. Something having the general shape of a cube: a cube of sugar.

    2. A cubicle, used for work or study.

  3. Mathematics The third power of a number or quantity.

  4. cubes Slang Cubic inches. Used especially of an internal combustion engine.

tr.v.   cubed, cub·ing, cubes

  1. Mathematics To raise (a quantity or number) to the third power.

  2. To determine the cubic contents of.

  3. To form or cut into cubes; dice.

  4. To tenderize (meat) by breaking the fibers with superficial cuts in a pattern of squares.


[Latin cubus, from Greek kubos. N., sense 2b, short for cubicle.]
cub'er n.
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