Parallelepiped (Noun)
Meaning
A prism whose bases are parallelograms.
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The rectangular box is an example of a parallelepiped with six rectangular faces.
- A cube is a special type of parallelepiped where all the faces are squares.
- The parallelepiped has a volume equal to the area of its base times its height.
- In geometry, a parallelepiped is a three-dimensional solid object with six faces, each of which is a parallelogram.
- The rectangular parallelepiped has three dimensions: length, width, and height, which can be used to calculate its volume.