Parallelepiped

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A solid with six faces, each a parallelogram and each being parallel to the opposite face.
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  • n. Solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms; all opposite faces being similar and parallel.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A prism whose bases are parallelograms.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A prism whose bases are parallelograms.
  • n. in experimental psychology, an outline drawing of a parallelepiped, with one diagonal drawn in, embodying an illusion of reversible perspective. The figure was published by Necker in 1832: the name ‘cube’ properly belongs to a similar figure published by Wheatstone in 1838. See illusion. 2.
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  • n. a prism whose bases are parallelograms
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    prism   
    Hyponym
    rhombohedron    cuboid   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    parallelopiped    parallelepipedon    parallelopipedon   
     
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