Parallelepipedon (Noun)
Meaning
A prism whose bases are parallelograms.
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The parallelepipedon is a three-dimensional solid object with six faces, each of which is a parallelogram.
- A rectangular box is a type of parallelepipedon where all the angles are right angles.
- The parallelepipedon has three pairs of congruent and parallel faces, which are the bases and the lateral faces.
- In geometry, a parallelepipedon is defined as a prism whose bases are parallelograms and whose lateral faces are parallelograms.
- The volume of a parallelepipedon can be calculated by multiplying the area of the base by the height of the prism.