PARALLELEPIPED

parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon

(noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

parallelepiped (plural parallelepipeds)

(geometry) A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms; all opposite faces being similar and parallel.

A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped.

Hyponyms

• cuboid

Source: Wiktionary



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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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