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cubing

cubing is the present participle and gerund of cube.

Meaning of cube

Verb

cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)

  1. (transitive) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
    • Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
  2. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
  3. (transitive) To cut into cubes.
    • Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
  4. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
    • He likes to cube now and then.

See all 12 meanings of cube

Noun

cubing (uncountable)

  1. The activity of solving the Rubik's cube.
    • […] as far as I know there is no standard word describing the art of playing with the cube. Cubing? Cubistics? Rubikonomia? or perhaps Rubikomania? Can the science (or art) of doing it be called “cubology”, as suggested by Scientific American? Some enthusiasts borrow “cubism” and call themselves...[1982 March 18, Stephan Sulyak, “Review: The magic cube (A Büvös Kocka)”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1297, →ISSN, page 734

Origin of cubing

From cube + -ing.

Words formed from cubing

Phrases with cubing

Questions about cubing

What does cubing mean?
Cubing means the activity of solving the Rubik's cube.
What is cubing the present participle and gerund of?
Cubing is the present participle and gerund of cube.
What part of speech is cubing?
Cubing is a noun.

Words near cubing in the dictionary

  1. cubilin
  2. Cubillas
  3. cubilose
  4. cubinder
  5. cubinders
  6. cubing
  7. cubing out
  8. cubinvariant
  9. cubinvariants
  10. cubism
  11. cubisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cubing (page history and authors); cube (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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