cuboid

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Chandrayaan-1, with a launch weight of about 1.3 tonnes, is shaped like a cuboid or rectangular prism and carries 11 payloads -- five from India and others from abroad.

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  1. adjective Having the approximate shape of a cube.
  2. noun Anatomy A tarsal bone on the outer side of the foot in front of the calcaneus and behind the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones.
  3. noun Mathematics A rectangular parallelepiped.

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  • It delivers up to 2TB of storage in an ebony-glazed cuboid designed by Neil Poulton. —  Gizmodo
  • The newest Lacie Hard Disk MAX ups the storage of its original Neil Poulton ebony-glazed cuboid design to 2TB, while adding the ability to switch between RAID configurations. —  Gizmodo
  • The array of cuboid shapes represent skyscraper buildings which make up the overall metropolis graphic, linking well to the meaning behind the name. —  Eyebeam reBlog
  • The name refers to the fact that the new device is spherical instead of cuboid and consists of a transparent plastic housing and two further internal plastic spheres - both independently suspended on a rotating axis - with six colored balls at its center. —  gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
  • Rodhocetus, but differs in having an indented dorsolateral border; cuboid is less deeply notched for the calcaneum than in —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. from Greek κυβοειδής, cube-shaped, from κύβος, cube, + εἴδος, form.
 

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