cuboid

The same is true of the battery - rather than fitting in a customised space, it's another cuboid.

Furthermore, not mentioned in the article, a cylinder will support much more weight than a cuboid, making a cuboid more susceptible to smashing under load.

<nitpick>rectangle specifies 2d</nitpick> I believe you could form a hollow cuboid, but I don't think you could complete a solid cuboid.

Why are most of the lithium cells cylindrical, while most of our devices are cuboid?

Well, Tetra Pak's Tetra Brik is used A LOT, and it's definitely a cuboid.

When I see examples of cuboid products on shelves (think boxes), they're usually stacked quite neatly and efficiently.

You certainly don't focus at the glass cuboid right in front of your eyes.

All the cuboid cans I've seen have tabs on top and thus don't require can openers.

If the can's cylindrical, instead of cuboid, it's easier to retrieve every bit of a thick soup that doesn't drop out of the can.

Each device has to be a cuboid, placed next to each other.

But I can manage the metatarsal-cuboid joints sometimes by twisting the foot from the toes.

Cylindrical cans are a natural fit for a fairly simple tool; I doubt there is anything really comparable for a cuboid.

If you "think away" the actual trough and keep only the liquid, you get the cuboid that the text is referring to.

The question is probably more aptly written as "Take the width, height and depth of a cuboid in centimetres, and return its volume in litres".

They patented "the ornamental design for an electronic device" which is a "thin rectangular cuboid with rounded corners"[2].

Cuboid is part of WorldEdit, there's tons of permissions plugin (PermissionsEX seems to be the most mentioned, though in both positive and negative terms) and there are quite a few MultiWorld plugins for Bukkit nowadays.