a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
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the product of three equal terms
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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
Cube \Cube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cubed} (k[=u]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cubing}.] To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.
Cube \Cube\ (k[=u]b), n. [F. cube, L. cubus, fr. Gr. ???? a cube, a cubical die.] 1. (Geom.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
2. (Math.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.
{Cube ore} (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color.
{Cube root}. (Math.), the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27, for 3x3x3 = 27.
It was a glass cube with a core in the middle apparently for the kitchen and other essential workings but when it came to lunch all the delicious food came from outside, from another nearby kitchen.
But it prepares you for Adrian Piper's "What It's Like, What It Is, No. 3." Here we walk into a big white cube of a room that offers us bleacher seating from which we can watch a performance on four TV screens in the center.
The machine's electronic circuitry is housed in the one-foot magnesium cube that sits under a desk.
"I guess I accept depreciation for churches because I like challenges, like Rubik's cube," Father Laurence says.
"It was squished, just like a little metal cube," John Geraca said Thursday. "All the wheels and the doors were gone.
Light chicken stock can be used, even that made with a good quality stock cube, such as Kallo. When boiling point is reached add the meat, all at once, so the bubbling ceases instantly.
The Marketing Consultant Sitting on Carol Bowen's desk in the basement office of her home in Concord, Mass., is a small enameled cube with a quotation from philosopher Bertrand Russell: "Success is getting what you want.