1. A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
   "A cube is an example of a regular hexahedron";
   - regular hexahedron
    
2. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
   "The ice cube slowly melted in the glass";
   - block
    
3. The product of three equal terms
   "8 is the cube of 2";
   - third power
    
4. A block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
   "Children played with colourful cubes";
   - square block
    
5. Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone
   "Indigenous people traditionally used cube roots for fishing in small streams"

1. (arithmetic) raise to the third power
   "Cubing 3 gives you 27"
    
2. Cut into cubes
   "cube the cheese";
   - dice

Derived forms: cubes, cubed, cubing

Type of: block, cut, ideal solid, multiply, number, Platonic body, Platonic solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron, solid, subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Lonchocarpus, Lonchocarpus

Encyclopedia: Cube