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parallelepiped

parallelepiped \parallelepiped\ n. (Geometry) A prism whose bases are parallelograms.

Syn: parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon.

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parallelepiped

n. (context geometry English) Solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms; all opposite faces being similar and parallel.

WordNet
parallelepiped

n. a prism whose bases are parallelograms [syn: parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon]

Usage examples of "parallelepiped".

A rectangular parallelepiped appeared on the wall, pictured in grey metal against a dark background, lying on its side, two small wheels appearing beneath it near either end, a rectangular door drawn in its centre.

It exited the crevice with a rectangular parallelepiped of stone suspended beneath it, which it stood upright in the sand six feet from the front cliff face.

Three black gate cars sat there exactly as he had imagined them: each a rectangular parallelepiped about 60 feet long, poised on gleaming rails extending forward to a large blue gate on the opposite wall.

From childhood, he knew it by touch: a parallelepiped with hard edges and smooth faces.

Out came a stick of light with a gleaming parallelepiped crystal at one end.

The colour screen showed a thirty-storied building in the shape of a parallelepiped, inlaid with orange ceramics and a fifty-metre bas-relief in snow-white marble of the first space rocket we had launched to the moon.

To simplify matters, let us suppose a human being is a parallelepiped who is 170 centimeters tall, 35 centimeters wide and 25 centimeters thick.

A right parallelepiped, I think they would call it in solid geometry.