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PARALLELOPIPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parallelopiped mean?
• PARALLELOPIPED (noun)
The noun PARALLELOPIPED has 1 sense:
1. a prism whose bases are parallelograms
Familiarity information: PARALLELOPIPED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prism whose bases are parallelograms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
parallelepiped; parallelepipedon; parallelopiped; parallelopipedon
Hypernyms ("parallelopiped" is a kind of...):
prism (a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parallelopiped"):
cuboid (a rectangular parallelepiped)
rhombohedron (a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms))
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