parallelopiped Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a prism whose bases are parallelograms
    parallelepiped; parallelepipedon; parallelopipedon.

WordNet

Par`al*lel`o*pi"ped noun
Etymology
Gr. a body with parallel surfaces; parallel + a plane surface, on the ground, or level with it, level, flat; on + the ground: cf. F. parallélopipède.
Definitions
  1. (Geom.) A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.

Webster 1913