A cube is a three-dimensional solid with eight vertices and twelve straight edges of equal length, whose edges form six square faces of the same size. It is a special case of a cuboid, a parallelepiped, and a rhombohedron in which every quadrilateral face is a square, and it is the three-dimensional member of the hypercube family of polytopes, which also includes the two-dimensional square and the four-dimensional tesseract. A cube with unit-length edges serves as the canonical unit of volume in three-dimensional space, and joining cubes face to face produces a polycube, the three-dimensional analogue of a polyomino.
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1. Cube, from Wolfram MathWorld
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The cube, illustrated above together with a wireframe version and a net that can be used for its construction, is the Platonic solid composed of six square faces that meet each other at right angles and has eight vertices and 12 edges.
2. Cube (Wikipedia)
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A cube is a three-dimensional solid object
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A cube is a three-dimensional solid object in geometry.
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