parallelepiped
- noun
- /ˌpærəˈlɛləˌpaɪd/
- Specialized
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paralelepípedo
- The architect designed a modern building that resembled a parallelepiped with its sleek, geometric lines.
Examples
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Let us consider the vacuum diode structure shown in Fig. 1 with 2D-periodic dielectric right parallelepipeds of size b x b x c with permittivity e, which are located on a conducting cathode with period a along the x and y axes.
Academic text (2018) -
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands; it cannot remain within the little parallelepiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative.
Academic text (2015) -
A parallelepiped box sheathed in almond green with, on one of its sides, this title in black and white: The Bride Stripped Bare
Academic text (2005) -
Then, when night had settled in, lights began to flicker on almost everywhere, on the roofs of houses, in the parallelepipeds of the apartment buildings.
Fiction book (2001) -
In geometry class, we learned that a parallelepiped has six faces, all of which are parallelograms.
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She shaped the clay into a parallelepiped to illustrate the three-dimensional geometric figure.
Synonyms
A solid like a box but with slanted sides
A three-dimensional solid with six faces that are parallelograms like slanted rectangles
A solid with six faces that are parallelograms
A solid shape with six slanted diamond-shaped faces
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Parallelepiped comes from Greek parts meaning parallel ('side by side') and plane ('flat surface'). So it is a 3D shape whose six faces are flat parallelograms and whose opposite faces are parallel.
