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cubie en · NOUN

Etymology

From cube + -ie.

Meanings

1. One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
   • Each nine-cubie face is capable of being rotated en bloc. 2003, Victor Percy Snaith, Groups, Rings and Galois Theory:
   • […] 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.

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