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- Dictionarycube/kjuːb/
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?"
- 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
- 1. raise (a number or value) to its cube: "cube the deviations from the mean"
- 2. cut (food) into small cubes: "I bought sirloin from the butcher and cubed it myself"
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Jul 18, 2024 · In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces. It has twelve edges and eight vertices. It can be represented as the rectangular cuboid with six faces are all squares, and parallelepiped with the edges are all equal. It is an example of many type of solids: Platonic solid, regular polyhedron, parallelohedron, zonohedron, and plesiohedron.
Jul 16, 2024 · A litre is a cubic decimetre, which is the volume of a cube 10 centimetres × 10 centimetres × 10 centimetres (1 L ≡ 1 dm 3 ≡ 1000 cm 3). Hence 1 L ≡ 0.001 m 3 ≡ 1000 cm 3; and 1 m 3 (i.e. a cubic metre, which is the SI unit for volume) is exactly 1000 L.
Jul 12, 2024 · In mathematics, a cube root of a number x is a number y such that y3 = x. All nonzero real numbers have exactly one real cube root and a pair of complex conjugate cube roots, and all nonzero complex numbers have three distinct complex cube roots. For example, the real cube root of 8, denoted , is 2, because 23 = 8, while the other ...
Jul 11, 2024 · Platonic solid, any of the five geometric solids whose faces are all identical, regular polygons meeting at the same three-dimensional angles. Also known as the five regular polyhedra, they consist of the tetrahedron (or pyramid), cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Jul 12, 2024 · Cube: A cube is a six-faced geometric shape where all sides are equal in length. The volume of a cube is calculated, where “s” is the length of the side. using the formula V = s³
Jul 2, 2024 · The region occupied by any shape is called the area. The total area covered by all six sides or faces of a cube is called the surface area of a cube. Hence, the total surface area of a cube is the sum of the areas of its six faces or sides.
Jul 1, 2024 · Rubik’s Cube, toy, popular in the 1980s, that was designed by Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik. Rubik’s Cube consists of 26 small cubes that rotate on a central axis; nine coloured cube faces, in three rows of three each, form each side of the cube.
Jul 18, 2024 · Like any other cube, a unit cube is a three-dimensional object. It also has 12 edges. And, the major point to be focussed on is that the length of all edges is equal to 1 unit. A unit cube is also called a ‘Cube of Side 1’. It has six faces which are unit squares.
Jun 28, 2024 · polygon, in geometry, any closed curve consisting of a set of line segments (sides) connected such that no two segments cross. The simplest polygons are triangles (three sides), quadrilaterals (four sides), and pentagons (five sides). If none of the sides, when extended, intersects the polygon, it is a convex polygon. Otherwise, it is concave.
An OLAP cube is a data structure that overcomes the limitations of relational databases by providing rapid analysis of data. Cubes can display and sum large amounts of data while also providing users with searchable access to any data points.
