kuution

Kuution is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun kuutio, meaning cube. It is used to indicate possession or association with a cube and appears in mathematical, geometrical, and descriptive phrases. In practice, kuution is used to modify nouns or appear in compounds such as kuution tilavuus (the volume of a cube), kuution sivun pituus (the length of a cube’s edge), or kuution reunat (the edges of a cube). The form is common in technical writing and educational text when attributing properties to a cube. Related terms include kuutio (cube) and kuutioiden (genitive plural), which is used when referring to the cubes of several objects.