cube

Pronunciation: /kjuːb/

The English word “cube” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
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.
An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, more so than even a square.
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
To form into the shape of a cube.
To cut into cubes.
To use a Rubik's cube.

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos). Displaced Old English tæfel ("cube, die, game with dice or tables").

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