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cubie

cubie noun: one of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.

Noun

cubie (plural cubies)

  1. One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
    • […] you can see that the corner cubie in question is detachable […]1981, Scientific American
    • Each of the tiles is actually part of a small cube, or cubie.1989, Dennis Merritt, Building Expert Systems in Prolog
  2. A five-gallon, boxed, plastic bag of drinking water used by firefighters.

Forms of cubie

pluralcubies

Origin of cubie

From cube + -ie.

Words that rhyme with cubie

Questions about cubie

What does cubie mean?
Cubie means one of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
What part of speech is cubie?
Cubie is a noun.
What is the plural of cubie?
The plural of cubie is cubies.

Words near cubie in the dictionary

  1. cubicuboctahedron
  2. cubicula
  3. cubicular
  4. cubiculum
  5. cubiculums
  6. cubie
  7. cubies
  8. cubiform
  9. cubile
  10. cubiles
  11. cubilin

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