parallelepiped

English

A parallelepiped.

Alternative forms

• parallelepipedon
• parallelopiped
• parallelopipedon

Etymology

From Latin parallēlepipedum, from Ancient Greek παραλληλεπίπεδος (parallēlepípedos, “with parallel surfaces”), from παράλληλος (parállēlos, “parallel”) + ἐπίπεδος (epípedos, “plane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɪd/, /ˌpæɹəlɛˈlɛpɪpɛd/

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Noun

parallelepiped (plural parallelepipeds)

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

   A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped.

Hypernyms

• parallelotope

Hyponyms

• cuboid

Derived terms

• parallelepipedic

Translations

solid figure

• Armenian: զուգահեռանիստ (hy) (zugaheṙanist)
• Bashkir: параллелепипед (parallelepiped)
• Belarusian: паралелепіпед m (paraljeljepipjed)
• Catalan: paral·lelepípede m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平行六面體／平行六面体 (zh) (píngxíng liùmiàntǐ)

• Czech: rovnoběžnostěn m
• Danish: parallelepipedum
• Dutch: parallellepipedum (nl) n
• Esperanto: paralelepipedo
• Finnish: suuntaissärmiö (fi)
• French: parallélépipède (fr) m
• German: Parallelflach n, Parallelepiped (de) n
• Greek: παραλληλεπίπεδο (el) n (parallilepípedo)
• Hebrew: מקבילון (he) m (makbilón)
• Hungarian: paralelepipedon (hu)
• Italian: parallelepipedo (it) m
• Japanese: 平行六面体 (ja) (へいこうろくめんたい, heikō-roku-mentai)
• Kazakh: параллелепипед (parallelepiped)
• Kyrgyz: параллелепипед (parallelepiped)
• Moore: yɩɩb-ta-mumdi
• Polish: równoległościan (pl) m
• Portuguese: paralelepípedo (pt) m
• Russian: параллелепи́пед (ru) m (parallelepíped)
• Spanish: paralelepípedo (es) m
• Swedish: parallellepiped (sv)
• Ukrainian: паралелепіпед m (paralelepiped)