A cubic surface is a projective variety studied in algebraic geometry. It is an algebraic surface in three-dimensional projective space defined by a single quaternary cubic polynomial which is homogeneous of degree 3 (hence, cubic). Cubic surfaces are del Pezzo surfaces.
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