CUBE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

2.
n.

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. -- Cube spar (Min.), anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate.

3.
v.

To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.


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