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parallelopiped |
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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