This article is about the geometric shape. For other meanings of the word
"cube", see cube . A cubeEnglish cube from Old French < Latin cubus <
Greek kubos, "a cube, a die, vertebra". In turn from PIE *keu(b)-, "to
bend, turn". is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square
faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can
also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic
solids. It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular
parallelepiped and of 3-sided trapezohedron. The cube is dual to the
octahedron. It has cubical symmetry (also called octahedral symmetry). A
cube is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a
hypercube, which exists in any dimension.
Cartesian coordinates For a cube centered at the origin, with edges
parallel to the axes and with an edge length of 2, the Car
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