cube

Summary

cube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,125 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• cube is a type of Platonic solid^[2].
• cube is a type of hypercube^[3].
• cube is a type of zonohedron^[4].
• cube is a type of trigonal trapezohedron^[5].
• cube is a type of rhombohedron^[6].
• cube is a type of rectangular cuboid^[7].
• cube is a type of quadrilateral prism^[8].
• cube is a type of three-dimensional object^[9].
• cube is a type of hexahedron^[10].
• cube's Commons category is recorded as Cube^[11].
• cube's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cubes^[12].
• cube's depicted by is recorded as cubical graph^[13].
• cube's depicted by is recorded as Minecraft^[14].
• cube's depicted by is recorded as Portal^[15].
• cube's has facet polytope is recorded as square^[16].
• cube's dual to is recorded as regular octahedron^[17].
• cube's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia^[18].
• cube's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[19].
• cube's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[20].
• cube's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921^[21].
• cube's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[22].
• cube's has characteristic is recorded as volume^[23].
• cube's has characteristic is recorded as surface area^[24].
• cube's has characteristic is recorded as Dehn invariant^[25].
• cube's has characteristic is recorded as sphericity^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include Platonic solid^[2], hypercube^[3], zonohedron^[4], trigonal trapezohedron^[5], rhombohedron^[6], and rectangular cuboid^[7].

Influence

Things named for cube include cubism^[27], an art movement^[28], in France^[29], founded in 1907^[30]; 2K12 Kub^[31], a combat vehicle family^[32]; and cubane^[33], a type of chemical entity^[34].

Why It Matters

cube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,125 views/month).^[1] cube has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35] cube is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[36]

Entities named for cube include cubism^[27], an art movement^[28], in France^[29], founded in 1907^[30]; 2K12 Kub^[31], a combat vehicle family^[32]; and cubane^[33], a type of chemical entity^[34].