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Question: What is a Cube ?

Answer:

A cube is a three-dimensional shape with all its faces square and all its edges equal in length. The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids.

It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular parallelepiped and of 3-sided trapezohedron. The cube is dual to the octahedron. It has cubical symmetry (also called octahedral symmetry).