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PARALLELOPIPED
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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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