cube root Meaning of "cube root"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a number that when multiplied three times equals a given number

Usage(s):

  1. One day, when Shakuntala wanted money to buy candy, she offered to help her uncle with a problem in cube root if he would finance the candy.
  2. But because the explosive effect of a bomb decreases only by the cube root of its comparative size, the jolt it gave the rock around it was roughly one-fifth as powerful.
  3. They collect them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
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