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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NECKER CUBE

Named after Louis Albert Necker (1786–1861), Swiss mineralogist.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NECKER CUBE

Necker cube  [ˈnɛkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NECKER CUBE

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Necker cube is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NECKER CUBE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Necker cube

The Necker cube is an optical illusion first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker.

Definition of Necker cube in the English dictionary

The definition of Necker cube in the dictionary is a line drawing showing the 12 edges of a transparent cube, so that it can be seen alternately facing in two different directions: an example of an ambiguous figure.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NECKER CUBE


Becker
ˈbɛkə
checker
ˈtʃɛkə
chequer
ˈtʃɛkə
Decker
ˈdɛkə
Dekker
ˈdɛkə
ekka
ˈɛkə
exchequer
ɪksˈtʃɛkə
forechecker
ˈfɔːˌtʃɛkə
lekker
ˈlɛkə
Mecca
ˈmɛkə
Mekka
ˈmɛkə
Necker
ˈnɛkə
pecker
ˈpɛkə
Rebecca
rɪˈbɛkə
Rijeka
rɪˈɛkə
spellchecker
ˈspɛlˌtʃɛkə
trekker
ˈtrɛkə
Voortrekker
ˈfʊəˌtrɛkə
woodpecker
ˈwʊdˌpɛkə
wrecker
ˈrɛkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NECKER CUBE

Neckar
neckatee
neckband
neckbeef
neckcloth
Necker

WORDS THAT END LIKE NECKER CUBE

bath cube
bouillon cube
cube
flashcube
hypercube
ice cube
Rubik cube
Rubik´s cube
soup cube
stock cube
sugar cube

Synonyms and antonyms of Necker cube in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Necker cube» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NECKER CUBE

Find out the translation of Necker cube to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Necker cube from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Necker cube» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

内克尔立方体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Necker cube
570 millions of speakers

English

Necker cube
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नेकर घन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

نيكر مكعب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Неккер куб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Necker cubo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নেকচার ঘনক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Necker cube
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kubus Necker
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Necker-Würfel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ネッカーキューブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

네커 큐브
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kothak sisih ndhuwur
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Necker cube
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நெக்கர் கன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नेकचर क्यूब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Necker küpü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Necker cube
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Necker kostka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Неккер куб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cub Necker
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Necker κύβος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Necker kubus
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Neckers kub
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Necker kube
5 millions of speakers

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The term «Necker cube» is used very little and occupies the 164.771 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Necker cube

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NECKER CUBE»

Discover the use of Necker cube in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Necker cube and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Human Interface and the Management of Information. Methods, ...
Because this is the normal Necker cube condition, we expected spontaneous visual depth reversals during the observation of the ambiguous pattern. (2) LA ( Left/ Shape A) Condition In this condition, the subjects touched a virtual haptic cube ...
Michael J. Smith, Gavriel Salvendy, 2007
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Logic, Meaning, and Conversation : Semantical ...
One ought to be able to see a conjoined, reduced, double Necker cube drawing so that simultaneously one cube is seen in one perspective and the other cube in the other perspective. When I made this prediction in Jerry Sadock's presence, ...
Claremont Jay David Atlas Professor of Philosophy Pomona College, 2005
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Necker Cube
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Necker Cube is an optical illusion first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Psychological and Biological Models
The two peaks in the graph at (8,0) and (0,8) correspond to the two primary interpretations of the Necker cube. It should be clear that if we start a system at (0, 0) and allow it to "hill climb" it will almost always end up at one of these two peaks .
David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, 1987
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Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches
This is what Louis Albert Necker discovered in 1832 when he found that in " examining figures and engraved plates of crystals", the drawings would not hold still.31 He gave us the first account of the so-called Necker Cube (Fig. 9). Although we ...
Frederick Burwick, Walter Pape, University of California (System). Humanities Research Institute, 1990
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Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook
In the perception of illusions, like the Necker cube in Figure 14.1, the corner marked "Y" sometimes appears to be to the front of the figure and other times to the back. In Gestalt terms, the figure is restructured to be perceived in one way or the ...
Michael W. Eysenck, Mark T. Keane, 2000
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Dimensions of Apeiron: A Topological Phenomenology of Space, ...
Embodying the Ontological A. The Necker Cube In Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (1962), he made use of a well-known visual paradox of modem psychology: the Necker c ube (Fig. 6b, next page). It is this structure, I suggest, ...
Steven M. Rosen, 2004
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Projecting Illusion: Film Spectatorship and the Impression ...
The Necker cube. The foreground outside corner of one cube becomes the background inside corner of the other cube. addition of the further lines representing the back side of one cube or the front side of the other. When we shift from one ...
Richard Allen, 1997
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Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal Experience
(2006) presented H estimates for dwell times in the Necker cube, clearly demonstrating their fractal nature. Gao's observations complement what is found in a large variety of behavioral tasks, such as mental rotation, lexical decision, speeded ...
Shimon Edelman, Tomer Fekete, Neta Zach, 2012
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: ...
To bias perception of a bistable stimuli, we had observers view a Necker cube flanked with 'fields of cubes' that are perceptually unambiguous and match one of the two percepts (see figure ??). Subjects are typically biased toward seeing the  ...
Bernhard Schölkopf, John Platt, Thomas Hofmann, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NECKER CUBE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Necker cube is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity
If two chunks are logically inconsistent or mutually exclusive to common sense, such as the Necker cube, the capacity limit is even more narrow ... «h+ Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Forcing Your Perspective on an Illusory Glass
It's really good stuff. ... and please check out what I still consider the single greatest illusion of all time. Tip o' the Necker Cube to David Darling. «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
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10 mind-melting optical illusions that will make you question reality
... the figure to be spinning one way and then the next, this is called a reversible illusion – the most famous of which is the Necker cube. «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
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The Dress divided the Internet, but it's really about subtraction
... color ambiguity in a similar way to how it deals with optical illusions, such as the Necker cube (which pops out or recedes) or Rubin's vase (or ... «Science News, May 15»
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Professor explains whether cat is going up or down stairs
... of the same 2D image. Famous examples include the Necker cube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube) and Rubin's face-vase illusion ... «CNET, Apr 15»
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An Illusion That'll Make Your Eyes Bulge
Tip o' the Necker cube to Cory Albrecht. *Correction, Jan. 8, 2015: This post originally misspelled the first name of researcher Sebastiaan ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 15»
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This Is It for the 12 Days Of Christmas
Or how about the Necker cube? It's an optical illusion introduced by its namesake in 1832. It has 12 lines, none of which broken and can be ... «ChicagoNow, Jan 15»
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Optics and Improvement
Or, the shape published by Louis Albert Necker, his so-called “Necker Cube”. Big Builder December 29 Big Builder Graphics Team. What do ... «Builder Magazine, Dec 14»
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An Illusion That Makes Me Happy and Sad
It seems like a better match with the theme of the book. Tip o' the Necker cube to the many folks who sent me the link to the Optical Spy page. «Slate Magazine, Oct 14»
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Ye Olde Blacksmith Art Gallery openes another summer season in …
This most recent body of work was inspired by the necker cube, an optical illusion originating from crystallography, where the shape can be ... «Newport Dispatch News, Aug 14»

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