sugar cube
Noun
Meaning
sugar cube (plural sugar cubes)
Piece of sugar in the shape of a cube (or approximate cube), often used for coffee or tea.
Synonym: sugar lump
Alternative names
sugar-cube
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Examples
We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.