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Short for multiple cube.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A regular skew apeirohedron with six squares around each vertex, formed by an infinite number of cubic cells (specifically, cubes missing two opposite faces each, around cubic empty spaces with no faces) in Euclidean 3D space. Full definition →
Short for multiple cube.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.