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    PARALLELOPIPED

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A prism whose bases are parallelogramsplay

    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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