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PARALLELOPIPED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prism whose bases are parallelograms

Synonyms:

parallelepiped; parallelepipedon; parallelopiped; parallelopipedon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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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