Cube vs Sphere - What's the difference?
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(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
(arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
To form into the shape of a cube.
To cut into cubes.
(UK) to use a Rubik's cube.
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
(mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .
A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
* Milton
* 2011 , Piers Sellers, The Guardian , 6 July:
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting form her":
(historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres ).
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* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.6:
(mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
(figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.20:
(geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n -dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .
(logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
* Shakespeare
To make round or spherical; to perfect.
In geometry terms the difference between cube and sphere
is that cube is a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces while sphere is the set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .In mathematics terms the difference between cube and sphere
is that cube is the third power of a number, value, term or expression while sphere is a regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .In transitive terms the difference between cube and sphere
is that cube is to cut into cubes while sphere is to make round or spherical; to perfect.cube
English
(wikipedia cube)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a sugar cube
- a stock cube
- the cube of 2 is 8
Synonyms
* regular hexahedron (rare) * (object in the form of a cube) block, brick, die, square block * (number raised to the third power) third powerHypernyms
* hexahedron, cuboidVerb
(cub)- Three cubed can be written as 33, and equals twenty-seven.
- Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
- He likes to cube now and then.
Synonyms
* (to cut into cubes) diceDerived terms
* bath cube * bouillon cube * cube candle * cube out * cube root * cube steak * cube van * cubiform * hypercube * ice cube * Rubik's cube * snub cube * stock cube * sugar cubeSee also
* line segment * square * tesseractEtymology 2
Clipped form of (cubicle) (with intentional reference to their common shape per ), which from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube .
Anagrams
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(wikipedia sphere)Alternative forms
* (archaic) * sphear (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere , he framed.
- So your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere , and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it.
- Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere .
- It is more simplicitie to teach our children[t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare , before their owne.
- They understood not the motion of the eighth sphear from West to East, and so conceived the longitude of the Stars invariable.
- They thought – originally on grounds derived from religion – that each thing or person had its or his proper sphere , to overstep which is ‘unjust’.
Synonyms
* (object) ball, globe, orb * (region of activity) area, domain, field, orbit, sector * (in geometry) (''topology ) * See celestial sphere * See celestial bodyDerived terms
* blogosphere * sphere of influence * sphere of interestSee also
* ball (in topology ) *Mathworld article on the sphere*
Verb
(spher)- The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other.
- (Tennyson)