Parallelepiped

//ˌpæɹəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms, all opposite faces being similar and parallel.

    "A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped."

  2. 2
    a prism whose bases are parallelograms wordnet

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"A parallelepiped is a three-dimensional shape with parallelograms as its faces."

Etymology

From Latin parallēlepipedum, from Ancient Greek παραλληλεπίπεδος (parallēlepípedos, “with parallel surfaces”), from παράλληλος (parállēlos, “parallel”) + ἐπίπεδος (epípedos, “plane”).

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