Cube vs. Cuboid

Cube vs. Cuboid — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Cube and Cuboid

Cubenoun

(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

Cuboidadjective

Of the shape of a cube.

Cubenoun

Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

a sugar cubea stock cube

Cuboidnoun

(anatomy) The cuboid bone.

Cubenoun

(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

the cube of 2 is 8

Cuboidnoun

(geometry) A parallelepiped having six rectangular faces.

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Cubenoun

(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube

Cuboidnoun

a rectangular parallelepiped

Cubenoun

A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

Cuboidadjective

shaped like a cube

Cubeverb

To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

Three cubed can be written as 33, and equals twenty-seven.

Cubeverb

(transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.

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Cubeverb

(transitive) To cut into cubes.

Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.

Cubeverb

(UK) to use a Rubik's cube.

He likes to cube now and then.

Cubenoun

a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

Cubenoun

a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

Cubenoun

the product of three equal terms

Cubenoun

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

Cubenoun

a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

Cubeverb

raise to the third power

Cubeverb

cut into cubes;

cube the cheese