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Definition of "parallelepiped" []

  • A solid with six faces, each a parallelogram and each being parallel to the opposite face. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "parallelepiped" in a sentence
  • "Remember, the volume of a parallelepiped is the area of its base surface times its height."
  • "But I wish he would have used the more correct and pretentious 'parallelepiped'."
  • "The house is a 23m x 7m parallelepiped, made of concrete, steel and glass, embedded in the slope of the terrain."