cuboidal
adjEtymology From cuboid + -al.
1
Resembling a cube.
- The alveolar cells are cuboidal in shape.
- The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis.1958 September 23, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613:
2
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Of, pertaining to, or having the shape of a cuboid.
- A cuboidal block was formed.
3
Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells whose height and width are approximately the same (cube shaped).
- Derived terms
- cuboidal bone, cuboidal epithelium, cuboidally, noncuboidal, subcuboidal
- Related terms
- spheroidal