Definition of parallelepiped Parallelepiped
par•al•lel•e•pi•ped
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What does parallelepiped mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: parallelepipeds |
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| parallelepiped - a prism whose bases are parallelograms | ||
| parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon | ||
| prism optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image | ||
| cuboid a rectangular parallelepiped | ||
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Wiktionary 
- parallelepiped (Noun)
Solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms; all opposite faces being similar and parallel.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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parallelepiped
par-al-lel-e-pī′ped, n. a regular solid, the opposite sides and ends of which form three pairs of equal parallelograms.—Also Parallelepī′pedon, improperly Parallelopī′ped, Parallelopī′pedon. [L.,—Gr. parallēlepipedon—parallēlos, epipedon, a plane surface—epi, on, pedon, the ground.]
Part of speech
🔤- parallelepiped, noun, singular of parallelepipeds.
