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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Parallelopiped  \Par`al*lel`o*pi"ped\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  a  body  with 
  parallel  surfaces;  ?  parallel  +  ?  a  plane  surface,  ?  on  the 
  ground,  or  level  with  it  level,  flat;  ?  on  +  ?  the  ground: 
  cf  F.  parall['e]lopip[`e]de.]  (Geom.) 
  A  solid,  the  faces  of  which  are  six  parallelograms,  the 
  opposite  pairs  being  parallel,  and  equal  to  each  other  a 
  prism  whose  base  is  a  parallelogram. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  parallelopiped 
  n  :  a  prism  whose  bases  are  parallelograms  [syn:  {parallelepiped}, 
  {parallelepipedon},  {parallelopipedon}] 




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