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PARALLELOPIPEDON

Dictionary entry overview: What does parallelopipedon mean?

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

1. a prism whose bases are parallelograms

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

Dictionary entry details

• PARALLELOPIPEDON (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 ("parallelopipedon" 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 "parallelopipedon"):

cuboid (a rectangular parallelepiped)

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

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