cube

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cube / kyoōb/ • n. a symmetrical three-dimensional shape, either solid or hollow, contained by six equal squares. ∎ short for cubicle. ∎  a block of something with six sides: a sugar cube. ∎  Math. the product of a number multiplied by its square, represented by a superscript figure 3: a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length.• v. [tr.] 1. Math. raise (a number or value) to its cube.2. cut (food) into small cubes.3. tenderize (meat) by scoring a pattern of small squares into its surface: [as adj.] (cubed) cubed steaks.

Cube

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Cube ★½ 1998 (R)

Claustrophobic sci-fi thriller about six people who inexplicably wake up chained together in a bare room attached to other bare rooms that are fiendishly booby-trapped. They are forced to work together in order to escape. The fact that the bizarro force holding these people hostage is never explained may escape you; since your senses will be dulled by the bad acting and lack of plot. Not as much fun as spending an hour and a half in a refrigerator box. 90m/C VHS, DVD . CA Maurice Dean Wint, Nikki de Boer, David Hewlett, Wayne Robson, Andrew Miller, Nicky Guadag-ni, Julian Richings; D: Vincenzo Natali; W: Graeme Manson, Vincenzo Natali, Andre Bijelic; C: Derek Rogers; M: Mark Korven.

cube

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cube In mathematics, the result of multiplying a given number by itself twice. Thus, the cube of a is a × a × a, written a3. A cube is also described as the third power of a number. The cube root is the number that must be multiplied by itself twice over to give a specified number. A cube is also a regular six-sided solid figure (all its edges are equal in length and all its faces are squares).

cube

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cube XVI. — (O)F. cube or L. cubus — Gr. kúbos.
So cubic, cubical XV. cubism form of pictorial art in which the design is based on cubes. XX. — F. cubisme.

cube

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cube A hexahedral crystal shape or form which can be referred to three axes of equal length which intersect at right angles.