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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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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sugar-cube

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Examples

We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube. Philippe Kahn

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. Ralph Merkle

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space. Alan Davies

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