parallelepiped

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped.

Similar words

parallelopiped parallelopipedon parallelepipedon parallelogram polyhedron rhombus prism antiparallelogram parallelohedron pyramidoid

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Word family

parallelepipeds