cubie

cubie

English

Etymology

cube +‎ -ie

Noun

cubie (plural cubies)

1. One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
   • 1981, Scientific American

     […] you can see that the corner cubie in question is detachable […]

   • 1989, Dennis Merritt, Building Expert Systems in Prolog

     Each of the tiles is actually part of a small cube, or cubie.

   • 2003, Victor Percy Snaith, Groups, Rings and Galois Theory

     Each nine-cubie face is capable of being rotated en bloc.

2. A five-gallon, boxed, plastic bag of drinking water used by firefighters.

Translations

cube of a Rubik's cube

Anagrams

• Buice

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Italian

Noun

cubie f

1. plural of cubia