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語源 1

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA^(key): /kjuːb/
• (米国用法) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA^(key): /kjub/
• Rhymes: -uːb

名詞

cube (複数形 cubes)

1. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

   a sugar cube

   a stock cube

3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

   the cube of 2 is 8

4. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
5. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube

同意語

• (幾何学: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): regular hexahedron (まれに)
• (object in the form of a cube): block, brick, die, square block
• (number raised to the third power): third power

上位語

• (幾何学: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid

動詞

cube (三人称単数 現在形 cubes, 現在分詞 cubing, 過去形および過去分詞形 cubed)

1. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

   Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt

     From this severe trial Mr. Nackybal emerged with distinction, having in his cubing made only twenty-five slight mistakes out of the forty-six cubes demanded, and in his rooting, out of the fifty-three extractions propounded, committed a mere matter of four trifling errors!

2. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
3. (transitive) To cut into cubes.

   Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.

4. (UK, intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.

   He likes to cube now and then.

同意語

• (to cut into cubes): dice

派生語

関連する語

• cubic
• cubical
• cuboid
• cubism
• cubist

参考

• line segment
• square
• tesseract

語源 2

Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber または lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).

名詞

cube (複数形 cubes)

1. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

   My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.