Parallelopiped

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parallelopiped \Par`al*lel`o*pi"ped\
     (p[a^]r`al*l[e^]l`[-o]*p[imac]"p[e^]d), n. [Gr. para`llhlos
     parallel + 'epi`pedon a plane surface, 'epi`pedos on the
     ground, or level with it, level, flat; 'epi` on + pe`don the
     ground: cf. F. parall['e]lopip[`e]de.] (Geom.)
     A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the


     opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a
     prism whose base is a parallelogram.
  
     Syn: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parallelopiped
       n : a prism whose bases are parallelograms [syn: {parallelepiped},
            {parallelepipedon}, {parallelopipedon}]