Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the approximate shape of a cube.
- noun Anatomy A tarsal bone on the outer side of the foot in front of the calcaneus and behind the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones.
- noun Mathematics A rectangular parallelepiped.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A parallelopiped whose six faces are rectangles.
- noun In anthropology, a cranium, short, high, and wide, of somewhat angular form.
- Resembling a cube in form.
- noun In anatomy, the outermost bone of the distal row of tarsal bones, or bones of the instep, supporting the heads of the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones: so called from its cubic form in man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the shape of a
cube . - noun anatomy The
cuboid bone . - noun geometry A
parallelepiped having sixrectangular faces .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a cube
- noun a rectangular parallelepiped
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Examples
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can get a three-dimensional figure which shall represent the four-dimensional figure which we call the cuboid?
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The assumption is that we will start with a rectangular cuboid of material, and then mill out parts until we get what we need.
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Mostly he draws grids, in various sizes, but from time to time his pen draws something else: an outline of his plan for the 40-hectare West Kowloon Cultural District, with its signature arched bridge; a giant cuboid letter "M" that seems apropos of nothing in particular; a rough map of Hong Kong's coastline.
Constructive criticism Duncan Mavin 2011
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It changed shape, from spherical to cuboid, then to pyramidal and to rhomboid.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The prize for an individual project was given to Junya Ishigami for an almost invisible cuboid form, which appeared to be made of very thin white thread that, as could just be made out, was supported by even finer filaments; diagonal buttresses, which, like spiders 'webs, could be seen only when the light and observer's angle were right.
Meeting in Space 2010
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You bust out 'cuboid,' setting all my nerve endings a-tingle, but then use the limp 'perfectly sine regularity' in lieu of say the throbbing 'perfect sinusoidal regularity' or the magnificently necropriapic 'cold dead sinusoidal character'?
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 6: Lord of Chaos (1994) Adam Roberts 2010
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We have a long friendship: I regard her as the sister I never had; we have worshiped together on several occasions at Makkah, even performing the holy pilgrimage of Umrah around the Kaa'ba, the cuboid building Muslims recognize as the House of God built first by Abraham.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah 2010
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The set, by the sculptor Antony Gormley, consists of movable cuboid frames which the performers continually reconfigure, the resultant ziggurats sometimes uniting the group, sometimes fracturing it.
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We have a long friendship: I regard her as the sister I never had; we have worshiped together on several occasions at Makkah, even performing the holy pilgrimage of Umrah around the Kaa'ba, the cuboid building Muslims recognize as the House of God built first by Abraham.
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As is suggested by the concept of anti-individualism (“Alienable Dividuals”), Toscano is toying with the idea that we are currently, blindly, acting as portions of a whole -- in an almost geometrical relationship with one another (a notion he develops through four equally participating voices amid cuboid quatrains):
Archive 2009-12-01 EILEEN 2009
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