What is the difference between infocube and fact table?

hi bw gurus,
what is the difference between infocube and fact table?
thanks in advance
bye

Fact table contains only KeyFigures and foreign keys of dim ids.
Infocube conatin fact table sorrounded by dimension tables.dimension table contain primary keys of dim ids and SIDs which link to master data.
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