cubing
present participle ofcube
cube
verb[T]
uk/kjuːb/us/kjuːb/cubeverb[T](SHAPE)
tocutfoodinto cubes
Preparing food
- batch cooking
- biga
- bind
- boil
- butter
- buttered
- can't boil an eggidiom
- clarify
- glaze
- glazed
- grate
- ingredient
- jerk
- purée
- re-season
- recipe
- rehydrate
- restuff
- toss
- zap
cubeverb[T](NUMBER)
mathematicsspecialized
If you cube anumber, youmultiplyittwiceby itself:
2 cubed(= 2 x 2 x 2)equals8, and is written 23.
Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- add
- add (something) up
- addition sign
- additive
- arithmetical
- coefficient
- deduction
- half
- halve
- highest common factor
- long division
- power
- recursion
- roundsomethingdown
- square
- subtraction sign
- subtractive
- table
- takesomethingaway
- treble
Examplesofcubing
cubing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Only then, when he had to buy feed, did he realise that hiscubingmachine was saving him about £5 a ton on feed.
From the
Hansard archive
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He slipped in algebraic terms in early efforts, bycubing2 to the answer 2.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Algorithms are also used for things such as rubik'scubingand for hash decryption.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A cubical complex meeting these conditions is sometimes called acubingor a "space with walls".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The name refers to the shape of the indentations left by that process (calledcubing).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unlike the case of squaring the square, a hard but solvable problem,cubingthe cube is impossible.
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