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  • noun Plural form of cuboid.

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Examples

  • Nick and Gordon each receive presents shaped like cuboids (or “boxes”).

    Take the Maths Challenge 2008

  • Added a wide range of mensuration problems: problems on surface area and volume of cubes and cuboids problems on surface area and volume of prisms problems on surface area and volume of cylinders problems on surface area and volume of pyramids problems on surface area and volume of cones problems on surface area and volume of spheres and hemispheres

    VersionTracker: Mac OS X 2010

  • M. inuus; red arrows point to the broad and deep, narrow and intermediate, and narrow and shallow indentations in the calcaneum and lateral margins of cuboids.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • For mensuration, flip through a school level textbook for basic formulae on areas, surface areas and volumes of triangles, circles, cylinders, cones, cuboids and spheres.

    LearnHub Activities 2009

  • The third method reduces complexly shaped objects to bounding volumes, either cuboids or spheroids; you can choose between algorithms with axis-aligned bounding boxes (faster, but less precise), and oriented bounded boxes (fits the object's shape better, but is more costly).

    Sun Bloggers 2009

  • Still, it would be condescending to dispute that the tower is an impressive, supremely elegant edifice, or that it is nothing less than graceful compared with the plain, cuboids from the age of functionalism or the gaudy, modern towers in places like Kuala Lumpur and Taipei.

    Free Internet Press 2009

  • Still, it would be condescending to dispute that the tower is an impressive, supremely elegant edifice, or that it is nothing less than graceful compared with the plain, cuboids from the age of functionalism or the gaudy, modern towers in places like Kuala Lumpur and Taipei.

    Free Internet Press 2009

  • Draw3D includes cuboids, spheres, cylinders, cones, truncated cones and polylines as primitives.

    PlanetJava 2009

  • I was recently in the science museum in Zurich, Switzerland and they had there this exibition of huge geometrical, spatial shapes (cubes and cuboids and prisms) which were placed on the special machine, so they were spining ...

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2008

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