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parallelopipedon

pa·ral·le·lopipedon

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noun

1.

a prism whose bases are parallelograms

Origin

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

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