Cube
21CUBE — s. m. T. de Géom. Corps solide qui a six faces carrées égales. Les dés dont on se sert au jeu de trictrac ont la forme de cubes. Pied cube, mètre cube, etc., Mesure convenue qui équivaut au volume d un cube dont les côtés auraient en longueur… …
22cube — (ku b ) s. m. 1° Terme de géométrie. Solide à six faces qui sont des carrés égaux. Les dés ont la forme du cube. • Cet être Suprême n a pas pris des cubes, de petits dés pour en former la terre, VOLT. Dial. 25. • Un cube est un solide dont… …
23cube — /kjub / (say kyoohb) noun 1. solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle. 2. a piece of anything of this form. 3. the third power of a quantity: the cube of 4 is 4 × 4 × 4, or 64. 4. a small… …
24cube — [[t]kju͟ːb[/t]] cubes, cubing, cubed 1) N COUNT: usu with supp A cube is a solid object with six square surfaces which are all the same size. ...cold water with ice cubes in it. ...a box of sugar cubes... The cabinet comes with locks and key and… …
25cube — I. noun Etymology: Latin cubus, from Greek kybos die, cube Date: 1551 1. a. the regular solid of six equal square sides see volume table b. something shaped like a cube < ice cube > c. cubicle 2 2. the product of a number mu …
26cube — cube1 [kju:b] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: cubus, from Greek kybos cube, vertebra ] 1.) a solid object with six equal square sides ▪ a sugar cube ▪ an ice cube ▪ Cut the meat into small cubes. 2.) …
27cube — {{11}}cube (n.) 1550s, from M.Fr. cube (13c.) and directly from L. cubus, from Gk. kybos a cube, a six sided die, vertebra, perhaps from PIE root *keu(b) to bend, turn. Mathematical sense is from 1550s in English (it also was in the ancient Greek …
28cube — I UK [kjuːb] / US [kjub] noun [countable] Word forms cube : singular cube plural cubes 1) an object like a box with six square sides that are all the same size cubes of cheese Cut the bread into cubes. 2) maths the cube of a number is the larger… …
29CUBE — n. m. T. de Géométrie Corps solide qui a six faces carrées égales. Les dés dont on se sert au jeu de trictrac ont la forme de cubes. Par apposition, Mètre cube, Mesure convenue qui équivaut au volume d’un cube dont les côtés auraient en longueur… …
30cube — cube1 cuber, n. /kyoohb/, n., v., cubed, cubing. n. 1. a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle. 2. an object, either solid or hollow, having this form or a form approximating it: a cube… …
