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cuboid
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Word definitions for cuboid in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. shaped like a cube [syn: cubelike , cube-shaped , cubical , cubiform , cuboidal ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuboid \Cu"boid\ (k?"boid), a. [Cube + -oid: cf. Gr. ???.] (Anat.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot. -- n. (Anat.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geometry , a cuboid is a convex polyhedron bounded by six quadrilateral faces, whose polyhedral graph is the same as that of a cube . While mathematical literature refers to any such polyhedron as a cuboid, other sources use "cuboid" to refer to a shape ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of the shape of a cube. n. 1 (context anatomy English) The cuboid bone. 2 (context geometry English) A parallelepiped having six rectangular faces.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cube-like," 1829, a modern coinage; see cube (n.) + -oid .
Usage examples of cuboid.
I reached out, and my fingers passed through her arm: her flesh, crumbling into cuboid pixels, had the texture of dead leaves.
And ahead of me stood a building - plain, cuboid, a bit like a large shoebox.
There were some astonishing buildings on the skylinefairytale, spires wrapped in the lace of white balconies, a great pearshaped dome of sparkling blue tile, a teetering cuboid fantasy of tinted glass and dressed stone, something like a shimmering sphere divided like the segments of an orange into freestanding slices.
Its research labs and prototype assembly shop were physically isolated, a cuboid composite building sitting at the centre of a quadrangle formed by offices and cybernetics halls.
Jameson caught a fine view of Greater Houston spread out below him: a glittering sprawl of bright cuboid shapes stretching for a hundred miles along the Gulf Coast.
The lowermost was shapen cuboid, the topmost a smooth cylindrical shaft against the pure Spanish sky.
Then, and only then, did Sixx release the all-important gem from its hazard, to return it to the cuboid shell, and to take it with him as he and Lowry went to report to Horn.
The upper three-quarters of the anterior articular surface of the calcis is not in contact with the cuboid, the latter being depressed obliquely forward and downward, the lower portion of the posterior facet on the cuboid articulating with a new surface on the under portion of the bone.
There were some astonishing buildings on the skylinefairytale, spires wrapped in the lace of white balconies, a great pearshaped dome of sparkling blue tile, a teetering cuboid fantasy of tinted glass and dressed stone, something like a shimmering sphere divided like the segments of an orange into freestanding slices.