cubes

Meaning of cubes

plural noun
  1. a symmetrical three-dimensional shape, either solid or hollow, contained by six equal squares.
    what is the surface area of a 2 cm cube?
    it was a rough shape, neither a cube nor a sphere
  2. 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
verb, 3rd person present
  1. raise (a number or value) to its cube.
    cube the deviations from the mean
    1200 metres cubed
  2. cut (food) into small cubes.
    I bought sirloin from the butcher and cubed it myself

mid 16th century: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek kubos .

Information about cubes

  • The singular form of cubes is: cube.
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Hyphenation of cubes

cubes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • cubes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

cubes synonyms

Meaning a solid figure with six plane faces:

hexahedron

Meaning a solid which has six rectangular faces at right angles to each other:

cuboid

Meaning a solid body of which each face is a parallelogram:

parallelepiped

Meaning a large solid piece of hard material, especially rock, stone, or wood, typically with flat surfaces on each side:

block

Meaning a small rectangular object:

brick

Meaning a compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape:

lump

Meaning a thick, solid piece of something:

chunk

Anagrams of cubes

Cebus, cebus

Words that rhyme with cubes

daubes, pickelhaubes, taubes, bathcubes, flashcubes, hypercubes, jubes, jujubes, lubes, epipubes, prepubes, pubes, rubes, bierstubes, blowtubes, buckytubes, drawtubes, flashtubes, myotubes, nanotubes, phototubes, tubes

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