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PARALLELEPIPEDON

Dictionary entry overview: What does parallelepipedon mean?

• PARALLELEPIPEDON (noun)
The noun PARALLELEPIPEDON has 1 sense:

1. a prism whose bases are parallelograms

Familiarity information: PARALLELEPIPEDON used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PARALLELEPIPEDON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A prism whose bases are parallelograms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

parallelepiped; parallelepipedon; parallelopiped; parallelopipedon

Hypernyms ("parallelepipedon" 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 "parallelepipedon"):

cuboid (a rectangular parallelepiped)

rhombohedron (a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms))

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