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cuboid

cuboid

6.1
A solid like a rectangular box with six flat faces
  • noun
  • /ˈkjuːbɔɪd/
  • Specialized
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Examples

  • In the same way a document can be considered a bag of words, a video can be considered a bag or collection of spatial-temporal cuboids, for which the interaction force is computed.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The architect designed a cuboid structure to maximize the use of space in the small area.

  • To build the model, we needed six pieces of wood cut into cuboid shapes.

  • The storage container was a perfect cuboid, making it easy to stack in the closet.

Synonyms

parallelepiped
vscuboid
  • Specialized
9.9

A solid shape with six flat faces that are parallelograms like a slanted box

is the more specific box shape with all faces as rectangles

Compounds

cuboid bone
  • Specialized
7.4

A bone on the outer side of the foot about the shape of a small cube

How Box-Shaped

cube
130 1.0
cuboid
  • Specialized
6.1
rectangular
28 3.2

Surface Forms

cuboid singular
cuboids plural

Morphology

cuboid = cube (semi-transparent) = cub + oid

Built from 'cube' + '-oid' meaning 'resembling a cube'; the term denotes a specific geometric solid (rectangular box) which may not be fully obvious from everyday use of 'cube'.

Etymology

Cuboid comes from the common word cube and the ending -oid, which means 'like' or 'shape'. So a cuboid is a solid that is 'like a cube' — a box-shaped solid with flat rectangular faces, and that is why the word names this kind of shape.