A cube has eight vertices and twelve straight edges of the same length, so that these edges form six square faces of the same size. It is an example of a polyhedron. The cube is found in many popular cultures, including toys and games, the arts, optical illusions, and architectural buildings.
Cube, in Euclidean geometry, a regular solid with six square faces; that is, a regular hexahedron. Since the volume of a cube is expressed, in terms of an edge e, as e3, in arithmetic and algebra the third power of a quantity is called the cube of that quantity.