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cube

Three-dimensional solid object bounded by the same six square sides

EntityQ812880

Also known as 3-hypercube · regular hexahedron · 3-cube

Subclass of: Platonic solid
, hypercube
, zonohedron
+6 more

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A cube is a three-dimensional solid object in geometry. It has eight vertices and twelve straight edges of the same length, so that these edges form six square faces of the same size. It is an example of a polyhedron. It is a special case of a cuboid, a parallelepiped, and a rhombohedron in which all six quadrilateral faces are squares. It is a three-dimensional hypercube, a family of polytopes that also includes the two-dimensional square and four-dimensional tesseract.

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Has facet polytope: square quantity: 6
Has characteristic: volume defining formula: V = a^3
surface area defining formula: \text{surface area} = 6a^2, \text{A} = 6s^2
Dehn invariant numeric value: 0
sphericity numeric value: 0.806 · nature of statement: approximation
Base: square applies to part: prism
equilateral triangle applies to part: trapezohedron
Schläfli symbol: {4,3}
Has vertex figure: equilateral triangle quantity: 8
Dual to: regular octahedron image: Dual wuerfel.svg
Depicted by: cubical graph
Different from: cube
dice
cube number
Conway polyhedron notation: C
Has part(s) of the class: vertex quantity: 8
edge quantity: 12 · defining formula: a, s
face quantity: 6
Invariant under: octahedral symmetry

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