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cube root

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cube root
n.
A number whose cube is equal to a given number.
cube root
n
(Mathematics) the number or quantity whose cube is a given number or quantity: 2 is the cube root of 8 (usually written 3√ 8 or 8⅓)
cube root
The number whose cube is equal to a given number. For example, the cube root of 125 is 5, since 53 = 125.
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Noun1.cube root - a number that when multiplied three times equals a given number
root - a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
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cube root n → radice f cubica
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I had to summon a good deal of courage to take a student who had been studying cube root and "banking and discount," and explain to him that the wisest thing for him to do first was thoroughly master the multiplication table.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
He had seen too much of life, and his mind was too matured, to be wholly content with fractions, cube root, parsing, and analysis; and there were times when their conversation turned on other themes - the last poetry he had read, the latest poet she had studied.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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