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What (who) is PARALLELEPIPED - definition

POLYHEDRON FORMED BY SIX PARALLELOGRAMS
Parallelopiped; Parallelepipedon; Parallelopipedon; Parallelipiped; Parallellepipedum; Parallelpiped; Parallelepipedic; Parallelepipeds; Parallel piped; Parallelapiped; Parallelepipid; Paralellepipedal
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parallelepiped         
[?par?l?l?'p??p?d, ?par?l?'l?p?p?d]
¦ noun Geometry a solid body of which each face is a parallelogram.
Origin
C16: from Gk parallelepipedon, from parallelos 'beside another' + epipedon 'plane surface'.
Parallelepiped         
In geometry, a parallelepiped is a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (the term rhomboid is also sometimes used with this meaning). By analogy, it relates to a parallelogram just as a cube relates to a square.
Parallelopiped         
·noun A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.

Wikipedia

Parallelepiped

In geometry, a parallelepiped is a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (the term rhomboid is also sometimes used with this meaning). By analogy, it relates to a parallelogram just as a cube relates to a square. In Euclidean geometry, the four concepts—parallelepiped and cube in three dimensions, parallelogram and square in two dimensions—are defined, but in the context of a more general affine geometry, in which angles are not differentiated, only parallelograms and parallelepipeds exist. Three equivalent definitions of parallelepiped are

  • a polyhedron with six faces (hexahedron), each of which is a parallelogram,
  • a hexahedron with three pairs of parallel faces, and
  • a prism of which the base is a parallelogram.

The rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), cube (six square faces), and the rhombohedron (six rhombus faces) are all specific cases of parallelepiped.

"Parallelepiped" is now usually pronounced or ; traditionally it was PARR-ə-lel-EP-ih-ped in accordance with its etymology in Greek παραλληλεπίπεδον parallelepipedon, a body "having parallel planes".

Parallelepipeds are a subclass of the prismatoids.