Cube vs. Sphere — What's the Difference?

In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube is the only regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids.

A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα—sphaira, "globe, ball") is a geometrical object in three-dimensional space that is the surface of a ball (viz., analogous to the circular objects in two dimensions, where a "circle" circumscribes its "disk"). Like a circle in a two-dimensional space, a sphere is defined mathematically as the set of points that are all at the same distance r from a given point in a three-dimensional space.

(Mathematics) A regular solid having six congruent square faces.

A round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.

Something having the general shape of a cube

An area of activity, interest, or expertise; a section of society or an aspect of life distinguished and unified by a particular characteristic

A cubicle, used for work or study.

Enclose in or as if in a sphere

(Mathematics) The third power of a number or quantity.

(Mathematics) A three-dimensional surface, all points of which are equidistant from a fixed point.

Cubes(Slang) Cubic inches. Used especially of an internal combustion engine.

A spherical object or figure.

(Mathematics) To raise (a quantity or number) to the third power.

A celestial body, such as a planet or star.

To determine the cubic contents of.

The sky, appearing as a hemisphere to an observer

To form or cut into cubes

Any of a series of concentric, transparent, revolving globes that together were once thought to contain the moon, sun, planets, and stars.

To tenderize (meat) by breaking the fibers with superficial cuts in a pattern of squares.

A range or extent of knowledge, interest, or activity

(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

A social level or part of society or group

Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

A range of power or influence

(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

To form into a sphere.

(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube

To put in or within a sphere.

A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube

(mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter . Category:en:Surfaces

A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.

To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.

(transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.

Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres).

(transitive) To cut into cubes.

(mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.

(intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.

(figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

(geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .

The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.

(logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.

To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

(transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.

A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

(transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.

A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

The product of three equal terms

Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.

Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone

The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.

A block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.

Raise to the third power

Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.

Cut into cubes;

Rank; order of society; social positions.

An orbit, as of a star; a socket.

To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.

To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

A particular environment or walk of life;

Any spherically shaped artifact

The geographical area in which one nation is very influential

A particular aspect of life or activity;

A solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)

A three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center

The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected